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In teams I've been a part of, I found a 15 minute everyday stand up to be a nice way to build rapport. We don't use it for planning or detailed discussions. We

by zabil 4y ago

In teams I've been a part of, I found a 15 minute everyday stand up to be a nice way to build rapport. We don't use it for planning or detailed discussions. We don't insist on a standup structure, or what must be discussed etc. We just find it useful for greeting each other, sharing context and checking if anybody needs help. We experimented having no standups(to be completely asynchronous), but we didn't like that and felt it's worth the effort to catch up once a day.

Kaze404 4y ago
+1 to this. I find that a 15 minute stand up at the very least lets me see my coworkers, and I get so much out of just saying hi and hearing it back.
ishwarn 4y ago
This is similar to what we do at Abl. We use a Slackbot to ask everyone for a written standup update, answering a few questions: - What did you do on your last working day? - What are you doing today? - Are you blocked? - Would you like a conversation with anyone (to get unblocked or anything else)? - Any announcements, like PTO? And that gets posted in Slack at a certain time. The goal of this is transparency for what folks are working on, giving people the opportunity to raise blockers, and announcements. We then have a scheduled 15 minutes a day to just hang. We have a check-in question that's not work related and we use the time to socially connect. We are a fully remote company that used to be in-office, and we found the opportunities to build & grow these connections are not available in a remote + scheduled Zoom world like they were in office.
- thunky 4y ago
  > We then have a scheduled 15 minutes a day to just hang This sounds awful to me. Not sure why it would ever need to come to that: forcing people into a room every day and telling them to connect with each other. It just seems forced and phony. You already work together full time, and I assume you interact with each other as a normal part of your work? If not, maybe you aren't really on the same team, in which case why not invite accounting and HR into your social time?

by zabil 4y ago

Kaze404 4y ago

+1 to this. I find that a 15 minute stand up at the very least lets me see my coworkers, and I get so much out of just saying hi and hearing it back.

ishwarn 4y ago

This is similar to what we do at Abl. We use a Slackbot to ask everyone for a written standup update, answering a few questions: - What did you do on your last working day? - What are you doing today? - Are you blocked? - Would you like a conversation with anyone (to get unblocked or anything else)? - Any announcements, like PTO? And that gets posted in Slack at a certain time. The goal of this is transparency for what folks are working on, giving people the opportunity to raise blockers, and announcements. We then have a scheduled 15 minutes a day to just hang. We have a check-in question that's not work related and we use the time to socially connect. We are a fully remote company that used to be in-office, and we found the opportunities to build & grow these connections are not available in a remote + scheduled Zoom world like they were in office.

thunky 4y ago
> We then have a scheduled 15 minutes a day to just hang This sounds awful to me. Not sure why it would ever need to come to that: forcing people into a room every day and telling them to connect with each other. It just seems forced and phony. You already work together full time, and I assume you interact with each other as a normal part of your work? If not, maybe you aren't really on the same team, in which case why not invite accounting and HR into your social time?