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The worst thing about standups is that they tend to be scheduled in the morning. Half of the team I manage are night owls. They suffer when they have to wake up
by cadence- 6y ago
The worst thing about standups is that they tend to be scheduled in the morning. Half of the team I manage are night owls. They suffer when they have to wake up in the morning just to attend a short meeting. That’s why I do everything I can to cancel standups. People become more productive because they gain more flexibility. Now they can work on something till the evening if they are in the zone, without worrying that they have to wake up early the next day. Works even better now that everybody is working from home.
- ptmcc 6y agoI'm one of those night owls, thank you. I've had to deal with early morning standups in the past and it was soul crushing and a huge net-negative for my work. Fortunately my current team does 11:15 which works great, especially from home.
- magicalhippo 6y agoMany years ago I read a post-mortem about the Carmageddon game. They had their management, finance, HR etc in London and all their devs in Sydney. This worked extremely well the post-mortem said, because everyone was at work at the same time...