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If you do the standup the way it's supposed to be done, it'd be quicker and easier to just send an email. Assuming you've got people who can read and write int
by thrower123 6y ago
If you do the standup the way it's supposed to be done, it'd be quicker and easier to just send an email. Assuming you've got people who can read and write intelligibly, which is a big if.
The biggest thing that I hate about standups is that it ends up being the de facto start of the work day. If you're supposed to start work at 9am, you can't do the standup at 9AM, because a third of the people who are supposed to be there will be running late any given day. So you do it at 9:30, or 10:00, or, god help you, at 10:30. And then it just works out that you can't actually do any real work in the morning with that hanging over you, so you diddle around doing email, or everybody just starts planning on getting to the office five minutes before the standup is scheduled to start. And then it's just a big waste of time because nobody has read their email or thought about what they are supposed to be discussing, and you start getting pressure behind your eyes and the irrepressible urge to scream.
- shalmanese 6y ago> The biggest thing that I hate about standups is that it ends up being the de facto start of the work day. If you're supposed to start work at 9am, you can't do the standup at 9AM, because a third of the people who are supposed to be there will be running late any given day. So you do it at 9:30, or 10:00, or, god help you, at 10:30. And then it just works out that you can't actually do any real work in the morning I've been a deep proponent that standups should be done at lunchtime. Every place I've worked, I've tried to set the expectation that meetings are to be discouraged in the morning. Leave the morning aside for a chunk of deep work, use the standup to communicate where you're blocked and then segue directly into afternoon time where people can co-ordinate to unblock.