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The morning coffee also works great. I really do not understand why there is a need for formalism here. There is a meeting for what's planned for the week. Ther
by zeroc8 6y ago
The morning coffee also works great. I really do not understand why there is a need for formalism here.
There is a meeting for what's planned for the week. There are the informal gatherings, like lunch. And if someone is stuck with something, he or she just asks for help. Easy as that.
- Nursie 6y agoIt helps to give a forum to bring up being stuck, and an opportunity for others to hear it when they're not caught up in the middle of their own stuff. Plus some people don't know when to ask for help, or when they're (for instance) duplicating effort. Informal gatherings are not an appropriate venue - if this stuff only comes up then, then lunch gatherings are now work, and they're mandatory.
- atomashpolskiy 6y ago> Plus some people don't know when to ask for help, or when they're (for instance) duplicating effort. This is the gist of it. Some people just have this (very sincere) belief that everyone else are clueless idiots and need to be nurtured, protected and helped. This is the spirit of our age, and Scrum in particular is just another manifestation of this belief.
- Nursie 6y agoI don't think everyone else is a clueles idiot, but there are a lot of them around. If you have a small(ish) team of great people you can get a lot done with a very informal process. When you start to grow, or you're not necessarily hiring the best there are, you start to need this stuff. And you don't always need the self-motivated, highly productive builders. Someone has to make small tweaks, pad out the automated test cases, maintain things, document etc etc.
- atomashpolskiy 6y agoI'm not arguing this, but what does it have to do with standups?