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IME, daily standups exist primarily for management to take attendance. This is usually framed as "removing any immediate blockers to keep employees productive".
by srswtf123 6y ago
IME, daily standups exist primarily for management to take attendance. This is usually framed as "removing any immediate blockers to keep employees productive".
- TuringNYC 6y agoI've seen worse actually. I had a customer that had 7:15am daily scrum standups, it was a way to force employees to come in early. This was a hospital, so granted, there was a culture of coming in early. Except IT doesn't get paid doctor salaries, neither do they have the growth of residents/fellows, so why should they come in early? Quite obviously the problem was not with scrum nor with agile nor with stand-ups. Rather, agile weaponized into an enforcement mechanism. Whips do not work in the long term. The most productive teams, in my experience, are ones where either: 1. The work/team/problem is interesting enough that people want to come to work OR 2. The pay is high enough such that people want to come to work, perform well, and earn that paycheck OR 3. The mission is important enough that people want to come to work to fulfill the mission