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even daily standups? or do you mean 3 video calls outside DSU?

yosito 5y ago
Daily standups are far too much. There's simply no need to discuss so much. It's a waste of everyone's time. I do one video standup per two week sprint, with a daily text status update and the end of each work day that's something short, sweet and human like, "Hey, I worked on automated testing all day today. There were some tests that were flaky in Safari, but I finally figured it out. Will start on the Firefox bug by mid-day tomorrow. Feeling slightly behind on this sprint, but I think we'll still manage to get everything done on time as long as I don't run into more problems with the tests."
bmeski 5y ago
Daily standup might be the worst offender. People end up waiting until standup to ask questions, creating a culture that doesn’t simply message one another for simple things. If something is brought up in standup, now product and project mgmt will want to understand and weigh the value of something that could literally be as simple as, “I need access, how do I generate a key?” Also I hate being interrogated every morning about what I did the day before. Daily standup removes the need to remember anything, or even picture the system/ product in your head because you can just ask someone else every day and get what you want. No need to think! Process over people!
- datavirtue 5y ago
  Stand-ups in general are cancerous enough to warrant an outright ban. That way, if you do have them they have to be conducted clandestinely and very quickly.
Trasmatta 5y ago
My personal experience is that daily stand-ups are mostly pointless, distracting, and a detriment to productivity. IMO, if you absolutely need them, you should prefer doing them in a daily Slack thread, asynchronously.
Frost1x 5y ago
Stand ups are just peer pressures on productivity with management oversight. I better have something to say at the standup or say X was completed or it'll look bad at me, not the effort. In theory standups are great because the team works together to solve blocking problems and doesn't worry about productivity. In practice it's just another mechanism to push productivity.
- datavirtue 5y ago
  And yet, this ritual is key to propping up people that actually accomplish nothing for long periods of time.

Daily standups are far too much. There's simply no need to discuss so much. It's a waste of everyone's time. I do one video standup per two week sprint, with a daily text status update and the end of each work day that's something short, sweet and human like, "Hey, I worked on automated testing all day today. There were some tests that were flaky in Safari, but I finally figured it out. Will start on the Firefox bug by mid-day tomorrow. Feeling slightly behind on this sprint, but I think we'll still manage to get everything done on time as long as I don't run into more problems with the tests."

bmeski 5y ago

Daily standup might be the worst offender. People end up waiting until standup to ask questions, creating a culture that doesn’t simply message one another for simple things. If something is brought up in standup, now product and project mgmt will want to understand and weigh the value of something that could literally be as simple as, “I need access, how do I generate a key?” Also I hate being interrogated every morning about what I did the day before. Daily standup removes the need to remember anything, or even picture the system/ product in your head because you can just ask someone else every day and get what you want. No need to think! Process over people!

datavirtue 5y ago
Stand-ups in general are cancerous enough to warrant an outright ban. That way, if you do have them they have to be conducted clandestinely and very quickly.

Trasmatta 5y ago

My personal experience is that daily stand-ups are mostly pointless, distracting, and a detriment to productivity. IMO, if you absolutely need them, you should prefer doing them in a daily Slack thread, asynchronously.

Frost1x 5y ago

Stand ups are just peer pressures on productivity with management oversight. I better have something to say at the standup or say X was completed or it'll look bad at me, not the effort. In theory standups are great because the team works together to solve blocking problems and doesn't worry about productivity. In practice it's just another mechanism to push productivity.

datavirtue 5y ago
And yet, this ritual is key to propping up people that actually accomplish nothing for long periods of time.