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The problem with this, and why there's such a wide variety of opinions, is that this is an individual skill. Either you're good at keeping yourself to a short
by ethbr0 6y ago
The problem with this, and why there's such a wide variety of opinions, is that this is an individual skill.
Either you're good at keeping yourself to a short summary, or you're not.
If you're not, most teams lack the social bludgeon / care to push back on you, to the degree that should happen. Consequently, one person who sucks at summarizing ruins standup for everyone.
And whether or not 1+ of those people are on your team is a dice roll.
- closeparen 6y agoStandup is a wedge into the calendars of people with impossible calendars. If there is something to discuss with them the options are talk about it in standup, wait for the next weekly sync on the topic, or try to play calendar tetris to get an ad hoc meeting in the next couple of weeks. Talking about it in standup clearly wins here. So standups get long.
- ethbr0 6y agoTo OP's point, 9/10 times that happens... everyone in standup doesn't need to be in that conversation. E.g. https://neilonsoftware.com/difficult-people-on-software-projects/project-managers/the-meeting-scheduler/ https://neilonsoftware.com/difficult-people-on-software-proj...