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Team rituals that trigger a productivity phase have no usefulness. Team communication has no value. Team leader having a chance to quickly gauge progress is not

• malermeister 5y ago
  > trigger a productivity phase [Citation needed]. I find standups and their context switching cost me at least an hour of productivity each day. > Team communication has no value If you want to communicate with your teammates, just use Slack and communicate instantly, why wait for the next morning's standup? If anything, standup slows down communication. > Team leader having a chance to quickly gauge progress You mean like the [insert ticketing system] board? Why do we have to waste time talking about stuff that's already being tracked?
  • handrous 5y ago
    > You mean like the [insert ticketing system] board? Why do we have to waste time talking about stuff that's already being tracked? This doesn't fully excuse it, but the more closely management is watching team-work-coordination tools like ticketing systems, and the higher the level of management that's looking at them, the more prone they are to drift from reflecting reality. That a standup is, by default, not transparent and recorded for anyone else to look at, is, in some organizations, and if they're run properly, most of their value. Granted, yes, that's a work around for a broader cultural problem and shouldn't be necessary, but the real world's a mess.