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>> Okay so, basically, the only unique point to standups is that they "keep everyone excited"? Skipping right past the part about "flag team blockers" in what
by TallGuyShort 7y ago
>> Okay so, basically, the only unique point to standups is that they "keep everyone excited"?
Skipping right past the part about "flag team blockers" in what they just quoted. I don't much care for the other nonsense, but sometimes I'm stuck on a problem, and I'll keep working on it if no one else knows, but it's nice to just broadcast where I'm at and see who thinks they have helpful insight. That happens a lot in my stand ups.
- scruple 7y agoDo you not have async channels for this? I've never thought to myself, "Well, shit, guess I'll keep banging my head against this problem until I can get some help in tomorrow's standup." I have a hard time taking that seriously.
- TallGuyShort 7y agoThat too, but do you find that everyone in the team eventually reads everything on the async channel?
- scruple 7y agoI tend to, as a team lead, yes. There's also @ mentions in things like Slack or regular old email to get people's attention.
- smileysteve 7y ago"As a team lead, yes"; 1 goal of scrum is to allow the team to function, to avoid having a single point of quarterbacking, and messages going up and down a chain of command. Moreover, from a psychology perspective, the act of reaching out for help require significant humility and is often delayed. As a lead, I've found it useful to be able to ask questions about updates, and, demonstrate "quarterbacking" by delegating myself or other to pair or split work off. Sometimes it's to ensure that there is better shared knowledge gained, sometimes it's to better parallelize work.