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> Usually the "yesterday I worked on X, today I will also work on X" for me are a sign that I need to grab a second team member to get a second set of eyes on s

> Usually the "yesterday I worked on X, today I will also work on X" for me are a sign that I need to grab a second team member to get a second set of eyes on something. While I admittedly do not entirely understand why it requires writing that down to come to the realization that you need help, if that is what works for you, more power to you. But is external communication necessary? Writing that down in notepad.exe seems like it would trigger the same in you? Why bother your team with noise? Once you have realized, letting the problem be known to your team makes sense, sure, but that does not seem like something that happens on any kind of regular schedule. Pre-scheduling your chance to let your team know that you have a problem seems unnecessary at best. I've certainly never met a teammate who is unwilling to help with a problem without being given advanced scheduled notice, and I'm not sure a person with that kind of attitude should be on the team in the first place.

saithir 5y ago
It's only noise when all everyone ever writes in them is noise. In that case, yes, I fully agree - it'd be a pointless waste of time and you should stop. I do like knowing what others work on, as we're all remote. Our project owner likes knowing what we're working on as well. If it was a daily zoom meeting I'd probably be against it every single day. As a slack message in a separate channel it's not really a bother. > why it requires writing that down to come to the realization that you need help It helps avoid tunnel visioning on the problem too much, I guess. The standup provides a chance to do so every morning, why not use it? It's not like it's the only way of me communicating with the rest of the team and asking for help, not sure what ever gave you that idea...
- randomdata 5y ago
  If it is reserved for when you have something interesting to tell, I can see the benefit. An expectation of fixed interval contribution is excessive. Then you just get the ridiculous "I worked on X yesterday. I will work on X today." out of lack of anything else to say.

saithir 5y ago

It's only noise when all everyone ever writes in them is noise. In that case, yes, I fully agree - it'd be a pointless waste of time and you should stop. I do like knowing what others work on, as we're all remote. Our project owner likes knowing what we're working on as well. If it was a daily zoom meeting I'd probably be against it every single day. As a slack message in a separate channel it's not really a bother. > why it requires writing that down to come to the realization that you need help It helps avoid tunnel visioning on the problem too much, I guess. The standup provides a chance to do so every morning, why not use it? It's not like it's the only way of me communicating with the rest of the team and asking for help, not sure what ever gave you that idea...

randomdata 5y ago
If it is reserved for when you have something interesting to tell, I can see the benefit. An expectation of fixed interval contribution is excessive. Then you just get the ridiculous "I worked on X yesterday. I will work on X today." out of lack of anything else to say.