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I moved my team's standup to just before most people take there lunch. Initially it was an accomodation for someone who was temporarily working in a different t
by VBprogrammer 5y ago
I moved my team's standup to just before most people take there lunch. Initially it was an accomodation for someone who was temporarily working in a different time zone but after they returned home no one on the team wanted to change it.
I like it for two reasons, I go for lunch straight after so don't have two context switches. And it sometimes works as an effective midday target for me to try to get a ticket progressed before the standup.
- randomdata 5y agoIn practice, lunch does not bring a context switch as you just don't go to lunch until you reach a natural stopping point. Standups cause a context switch because they are scheduled by the clock, not by the work. Asynchronous standups avoid that problem, but I've never seen an async standup bring any engagement and ends up being nothing more than "I'm working on X again. Duh." which is completely pointless.
- VBprogrammer 5y agoMaybe for you, lots of us go for lunch with colleagues, play sports or boardgames and so that tends to happen on a schedule. At least we did until we all started working from home.
- randomdata 5y agoLike another commenter said, you can always say "Hey guys, give me 15 minutes while I wrap this up" and you don't enter context switch mode. Unless you work with completely unreasonable people, they'll wait. In fairness, as you are forcing a context switch for a standup, it is likely that you do work with unreasonable people.