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> - everyone on the team writing up weekly summaries. What do you write in them that you didn't already mention during the daily standing meetings, the biweekl

> - everyone on the team writing up weekly summaries. What do you write in them that you didn't already mention during the daily standing meetings, the biweekly retrospective, the team meetings, the company meetings, or the Slack channels at the time they were relevant? I've worked with people who wanted more status updates, but all too often those updates just became "No news to report since I've been in status update meetings or other meetings since my last status update." and nothing was actually getting done. So we trimmed some of those rituals back (and could trim more.) If anything, all those rituals and forced chats not only get in the way of getting work done, they also get in the way of the natural spontaneous development of working relationships. The sort of banter that happens when people are actually getting things done and feeling good and want to chat. Instead of being stressed because they're getting nothing done and constantly interrupted with all of the forced chat and rituals.

nouveaux 5y ago
> What do you write in them that you didn't already mention during the daily standing meetings, the biweekly retrospective, the team meetings, the company meetings, or the Slack channels at the time they were relevant? Well I would rather write up weekly summaries and cut down on meeting time. Daily standup is not a time for summary. It's a time to check to see if people are blocked. If no one is blocked, you go back to work.
- noarchy 5y ago
  >Daily standup is not a time for summary. I wish most teams did it this way, but it is almost always the case that time is burned going over what they did. I feel like that could always be done asynchronously in a place like Slack.
adrianmsmith 5y ago
> What do you write in them that you didn't already mention during the daily standing meetings, the biweekly retrospective, the team meetings, the company meetings, or the Slack channels at the time they were relevant? Also: Jira ticket updates (e.g. rule to update them at least once a day), commit messages, PR messages, ...

nouveaux 5y ago

> What do you write in them that you didn't already mention during the daily standing meetings, the biweekly retrospective, the team meetings, the company meetings, or the Slack channels at the time they were relevant? Well I would rather write up weekly summaries and cut down on meeting time. Daily standup is not a time for summary. It's a time to check to see if people are blocked. If no one is blocked, you go back to work.

noarchy 5y ago
>Daily standup is not a time for summary. I wish most teams did it this way, but it is almost always the case that time is burned going over what they did. I feel like that could always be done asynchronously in a place like Slack.

adrianmsmith 5y ago

> What do you write in them that you didn't already mention during the daily standing meetings, the biweekly retrospective, the team meetings, the company meetings, or the Slack channels at the time they were relevant? Also: Jira ticket updates (e.g. rule to update them at least once a day), commit messages, PR messages, ...