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The best SCRUM master I ever worked with had strong opinions about standups. Standups, he said, were an attempt to address the principle of constant communicati
by madrox 8y ago
The best SCRUM master I ever worked with had strong opinions about standups. Standups, he said, were an attempt to address the principle of constant communication. He said most places held to standups too literally and the updates weren't useful to most of the people in the room, which negated the whole purpose.
- TheBiv 8y agoInteresting! So how did he run the standups?
- heymishy 8y agoYeah I concur wirh this. Apologies if I've for the intent of this wrong but stand ups are intended to be a team sync point where questions are asked, mutual understanding reached and I doing a 1way update seems counter to the intent of a stand up. It definitely has its place to provide opportunity where you can't all meet together but it you'd to rely promote questions and discussions following this by all team members to avoid it being a box tick
- tootie 8y agoAlmost all of scrum process are intended to enforce agile delivery. Generally speaking, the more mature and disciplined the team, the less you need to enforce formalities like standup etiquette. If you can achieve agility without scrum, you absolutely should. Scrum is like guideposts. A means to an end.