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Yes, daily detailed standups are not useful. BUT, since development teams tend to be slightly to very introverted, it helps ease 'department wide' communication
by czbond 7y ago
Yes, daily detailed standups are not useful. BUT, since development teams tend to be slightly to very introverted, it helps ease 'department wide' communication and 'solutioning' that wouldn't happen otherwise. The underlying goal is to help personality types that often don't like to communicate outside of a small group, and often don't like to ask for help, and in some cases helps the few developers who 'cannot see the forest for the trees' that focus on trivialties when they need to look past them. Edit: It also helps product or leadership types who may not be well versed in technology.
- therealdrag0 7y agoThis is where I've seen value. Building comraderie/comfort within the team, where otherwise devs might not talk to each other. Provides a sandbox for brainstorming/reviewing strategies ("Oh did you try this framework/class" or "oh I wrote the same code in X service 4 months ago, go take a look) and making sure everyone is on the same page about what is going in the next cloud release. I will say that only 2/3 times a week is the best bang for your buck, and often switching to "Slack-up" instead of "stand-up", when people are busy with other things or can't be bothered.