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Our daily "15-minute" stand ups regularly tip over to 30+ minutes. This should be a sign that the team needs to be split up, as more than half of the stand-up i
by BLKNSLVR 4y ago
Our daily "15-minute" stand ups regularly tip over to 30+ minutes. This should be a sign that the team needs to be split up, as more than half of the stand-up is discussion of topics that are totally unrelated to my context.
It stops my momentum, annoys me, which ruins my motivation.
- rexpop 4y agoSo... why do you put up with it?
- BLKNSLVR 4y ago12 month fixed term contract, which is up in a couple of weeks. ;)
- chii 4y ago> more than half of the stand-up is discussion of topics that are totally unrelated to my context. or the team is doing too much at a time, and delegating different "projects" to different people in the name of efficiency. I think that's actually wrong - the whole team should work on the "same" task. For example, coding a module could be done together. It might seem like only 1 person is writing code, and everyone else is over the shoulder looking, but you save knowledge transfer times in the future, and you save code review time (you do review at the same time when everyone is there).
- deckard1 4y agoI had a manager that gave me shit for not being verbose enough. And our stand-ups were already in that 20+ minute territory. Why do we have a Jira board if no one wants to read it? It's all right there! No blockers. Next.
- throwaway787544 4y agoI stopped going to stand-up and simply posted a Slack thread for status. The people who didn't like it are the people who would ramble on at stand-up, uncomfortable being curt or ending a meeting early. They'd ask "anyone have anything else to talk about?" just to fill up extra time. No preparation ahead of time, so a lot of "oh yeah and also..."