3 ms·

Yes I can see your point. Why wait for a single point of day to bring up any issues or share information? Just do it immediately. We have tools to enable this (

by wppick 5y ago

Yes I can see your point. Why wait for a single point of day to bring up any issues or share information? Just do it immediately. We have tools to enable this (slack, teams, email, etc.). But, I do see the point of a daily sync up for team building, especially for remote teams.

skeeter2020 5y ago
I hope teams aren't waiting for a daily stand-up to try and get unblocked, but there is definitely value in both sharing the summary of the blocker and publicly thanking anyone who helped unblock with the entire team. It (a) increases bus width, (b) builds the team and (c) takes 20 seconds.
- Jensson 5y ago
  > It (a) increases bus width, (b) builds the team and (c) takes 20 seconds. (d) creates a daily source of anxiety for developers who doesn't handle public speaking well. Which is a lot of them, but it is a shameful thing to admit.
Clubber 5y ago
>Why wait for a single point of day to bring up any issues or share information? Nobody does this, they do it immediately, at least all the places I've worked. I need help, first I try to figure it out myself, then when I'm stuck or want to make sure I'm doing it right, I ask the owner of the code I'm working with. This makes standups not only redundant (information has already been shared) but distracting. >But, I do see the point of a daily sync up for team building, especially for remote teams. I've found it to be a morale killer more so than a morale booster. Fuck I gotta stop what I'm doing for this stupid standup, or I'm not gonna do anything because the standup is in 45 minutes; I'll just get distracted. I was once at a place where you actually stood up and the standups were 45 friggin minutes long. Total waste of time and I was so demoralized after it took me 30 minutes just to decompress and get stuff done. They would be slightly better if done on M-F-W or even more so on T-TH. Once a week meetings for about 30 minutes with biz then 30 minutes with dev works great for our team.
nzmsv 5y ago
Teams are built out of people, and I think if you ask you'll find that people overwhelmingly hate standups. So what exactly is this teambuilding building?

by wppick 5y ago

skeeter2020 5y ago

I hope teams aren't waiting for a daily stand-up to try and get unblocked, but there is definitely value in both sharing the summary of the blocker and publicly thanking anyone who helped unblock with the entire team. It (a) increases bus width, (b) builds the team and (c) takes 20 seconds.

Jensson 5y ago
> It (a) increases bus width, (b) builds the team and (c) takes 20 seconds. (d) creates a daily source of anxiety for developers who doesn't handle public speaking well. Which is a lot of them, but it is a shameful thing to admit.

Clubber 5y ago

>Why wait for a single point of day to bring up any issues or share information? Nobody does this, they do it immediately, at least all the places I've worked. I need help, first I try to figure it out myself, then when I'm stuck or want to make sure I'm doing it right, I ask the owner of the code I'm working with. This makes standups not only redundant (information has already been shared) but distracting. >But, I do see the point of a daily sync up for team building, especially for remote teams. I've found it to be a morale killer more so than a morale booster. Fuck I gotta stop what I'm doing for this stupid standup, or I'm not gonna do anything because the standup is in 45 minutes; I'll just get distracted. I was once at a place where you actually stood up and the standups were 45 friggin minutes long. Total waste of time and I was so demoralized after it took me 30 minutes just to decompress and get stuff done. They would be slightly better if done on M-F-W or even more so on T-TH. Once a week meetings for about 30 minutes with biz then 30 minutes with dev works great for our team.

nzmsv 5y ago

Teams are built out of people, and I think if you ask you'll find that people overwhelmingly hate standups. So what exactly is this teambuilding building?