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As an engineering manager I tried to replace daily stand up meetings with a “drop a couple of lines in the team chat daily”. I think it worked great and a lot o
by havkom 5y ago
As an engineering manager I tried to replace daily stand up meetings with a “drop a couple of lines in the team chat daily”. I think it worked great and a lot of more relevant information was brought forward and lead to more productive co-operation between team members.
However, some team members thought this was “wrong” and “not how agile should work” so eventually after continuing complaining I had to reinstate/allow these stand-ups again…
- fhd2 5y agoDid you try telling them that that is _absolutely_ how "agile" works? Even Scrum, the way most companies adopt it meticulously, is just a list of recommendations. The key is that the team finds a process that works for them and keeps evolving it. I guess in your case it may have called for a compromise. Unfortunately, if those guys had gone up the management chain saying how you're "not agile", they probably would have won...