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Our team does our stand-ups in Slack, in a separate channel called "#daily-status". Every morning, each team member posts a short bullet list of the items they
by remmargorp64 6y ago
Our team does our stand-ups in Slack, in a separate channel called "#daily-status".
Every morning, each team member posts a short bullet list of the items they are planning on working on that day, along with details about any things they are blocked by. This happens asynchronously as people start working every day, so one person might post their message at 7 am, while another person posts at 10 am.
Any conversation that needs to happen about someone's daily status message happens in a thread under their message. This gives the team and management an easy way to see what each other's intentions are for the day, without a bunch of distractions or bullshit meetings or people's eyes glazing over while someone goes on a side tangent rant for 10 minutes. Instead, the information is quick and to the point.
It's also very common for people to post a summary message at the end of the day to let everyone know what they actually got done (or didn't get done).
Our whole team is remote, and this method seems to work really well for us.
- deevin9 6y agocheck out https://github.com/coveord/scrumpolice https://github.com/coveord/scrumpolice, it can do the aggregation for you
- remmargorp64 6y agoThat seems cool, but we haven't really needed anything fancy. As engineers, we are always trying to build solutions and over-complicate things, but sometimes all you need is for some people to just agree to do something (like posting a status message), and then everyone needs to hold each other accountable like adults.
- eblanshey 6y agoI personally like seeing everybody else on the call and talking face to face. As a manager I get a feel for how the others are doing. I feel chats-only will get rid of that aspect and make things more impersonal. Do you not have face to face calls at all?
- remmargorp64 6y agoThere are still a lot of zoom/tuple/phone calls going on between people (in an asynchronous manner, as needed). We also do weekly retros as a team on a group call.