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3. No meeting agenda, no meeting. It is OK to have weekly recurring meetings. But if you don't have an agenda emailed a day or so before the meeting, cancel the

3. No meeting agenda, no meeting. It is OK to have weekly recurring meetings. But if you don't have an agenda emailed a day or so before the meeting, cancel the meeting. 4. Unless you have a somewhat detailed requirements document based on actual customer input, you will build the wrong thing. All stakeholders should be in agreement with what's on that document. 6. For the love of god, no Scrum or daily standup, unless you want your team hate you. Weekly iteration meetings for progress updates might work better. Your 1-on-1's is a better way to track team progress.

mandeepj 2y ago
> 6. For the love of god, no Scrum or daily standup, unless you want your team hate you. Weekly iteration meetings for progress updates might work better. Your 1-on-1's is a better way to track team progress. If stand-up is done right, it has a lot of benefits. I've seen some people start boiling an ocean in that meeting or even after being included in every single meeting, would still ask the next day in the stand-up - *"What you did yday?"* ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . @allknowingfrog put it in the right way - * A daily standup ensures that no one spins their wheels for more than a day without giving you a chance to do something about it, which is really helpful for a junior team. However, remember that this meeting is for surfacing issues, not for solving them. Schedule follow-ups with the people who need it and let everyone else get back to work. * I recently bought [0]. The workbook[1] alone convinced me the money spent on it would be well worth it [0]: https://press.stripe.com/scaling-people https://press.stripe.com/scaling-people [1]: https://assets.ctfassets.net/fzn2n1nzq965/5QpKqAjTVoskvZ4mRTNsMj/cffdca0985b2b48336798d126245518a/Scaling-People-Workbooks_PDF_23_03_05.pdf https://assets.ctfassets.net/fzn2n1nzq965/5QpKqAjTVoskvZ4mRT...
- ipaddr 2y ago
  Standups slow your team down while providing a place to discover someone is off track. Foster an environment where people reach out before the standups making them unnecessary is a more agile approach.

mandeepj 2y ago

> 6. For the love of god, no Scrum or daily standup, unless you want your team hate you. Weekly iteration meetings for progress updates might work better. Your 1-on-1's is a better way to track team progress. If stand-up is done right, it has a lot of benefits. I've seen some people start boiling an ocean in that meeting or even after being included in every single meeting, would still ask the next day in the stand-up - *"What you did yday?"* ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . @allknowingfrog put it in the right way - * A daily standup ensures that no one spins their wheels for more than a day without giving you a chance to do something about it, which is really helpful for a junior team. However, remember that this meeting is for surfacing issues, not for solving them. Schedule follow-ups with the people who need it and let everyone else get back to work. * I recently bought [0]. The workbook[1] alone convinced me the money spent on it would be well worth it [0]: https://press.stripe.com/scaling-people https://press.stripe.com/scaling-people [1]: https://assets.ctfassets.net/fzn2n1nzq965/5QpKqAjTVoskvZ4mRTNsMj/cffdca0985b2b48336798d126245518a/Scaling-People-Workbooks_PDF_23_03_05.pdf https://assets.ctfassets.net/fzn2n1nzq965/5QpKqAjTVoskvZ4mRT...

ipaddr 2y ago
Standups slow your team down while providing a place to discover someone is off track. Foster an environment where people reach out before the standups making them unnecessary is a more agile approach.