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What’s the point of knowing what the rest of 10 people are working on? You won’t remember all of it anyway. There is no need to add so much cognitive load to yo
by andreygrehov 7y ago
What’s the point of knowing what the rest of 10 people are working on? You won’t remember all of it anyway. There is no need to add so much cognitive load to your brain every single morning. Engineers should imho start their day with clear mind.
- solidasparagus 7y agoTo give ideas based on your experience. To raise questions that might not have been considered. To build a team instead of a collection of independent cogs. To know what expertise your teammates have so you know who to go to with a question in the future. It really shouldn't be much cognitive load to listen to what other people are working on for 10 minutes. If it is, it might mean the standup is running at the wrong level of abstraction or perhaps you aren't really a team that has a shared goal.
- qazpot 7y agoYou can either have 15 minute quick standup or you can have a meeting to give ideas, raise questions and know my teammate's expertise. > If it is, it might mean the standup is running at the wrong level of abstraction or perhaps you aren't really a team that has a shared goal. Or maybe the problems other people are working on will take more than 10 minutes for any reasonable input.
- solidasparagus 7y agoIMO standup shouldn't be where the conversation takes place, it's where the conversation starts, to be picked up after standup/in a separate meeting.
- mattrp 7y agoBingo - the whole idea of any meetings before lunch is absurd. Your brain does 90% of its best thinking between wake up and lunch... why waste that on meetings? Sorry for the sidebar... I’m loving this thread. I’ve been telling my wife for years that daily huddles are a scam that manipulative management types do “to maintain momentum” or the appearance of it at least.