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I agree @ stand-ups being useless. I've been on both sides of them: to give information to managers and to get information from people I delegated. Stand-ups
by pandizzle 7y ago
I agree @ stand-ups being useless.
I've been on both sides of them: to give information to managers and to get information from people I delegated.
Stand-ups tend to turn into a defensive justification for 'being busy', and distracts from the intended purpose of asking for help.
At my current job, our manager wastes more time interrupting people during their stand-ups to tell them that they are giving the wrong amount of info "that nobody else cares about", instead of listening or helping.
At my previous job, it was used as a way to get people in the office at a certain time.
Your peers don't care about what you're working on, they care about sounding busy.
- sime2009 7y ago> I've been on both sides of them: to give information to managers and to get information from people I delegated. This is horrific. It looks like you don't have a team which is self regulating, autonomous and where team members support each other. You've got a military style command and control structure where subordinates report to their commanding officer/manager. It is everyone for themselves. You've got far bigger problems than stand ups. There is no trust and people are treated like children.
- pandizzle 7y agoYeah, this has been my feeling for quite a while now, so it's 'nice' to see it being extrapolated from a situational observation. Some individuals are trusted* while most are not trusted at all. * Ts and Cs apply