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If your team is waiting until the next stand-up to get help to get unstuck I think that's a cultural problem, they should be reaching out at any point during t

If your team is waiting until the next stand-up to get help to get unstuck I think that's a cultural problem, they should be reaching out at any point during the day.

VyseofArcadia 2y ago
I feel like the existence of daily standup has influenced this for my team. There's a lot of, "well I could reach out about this now, but I'll just bring it up at standup and then I'm not interrupting anyone"
- marcosdumay 2y ago
  Yes. The existence of the meeting makes people delay solving their problems until the next one. This is not something that make teams agile.
  - kibibu 2y ago
    The solution? Hourly scrums, daily retrospectives.
    - hrunt 2y ago
      More meetings: both the cause of and solution to our problems!
zokier 2y ago
And now you have people complaining about getting interrupted all the time and breaking their flow.
jauntywundrkind 2y ago
And reporting up to someone whose sole responsibility in the interaction is to detect stuckness or the hint of stuckness or to offer referrals to someone who might make you go faster is tiring as hell. It's quite transparent and grating. I recognize that often there is a good outcome and it helps. People can spin on issues poorly. (And I definitely am a person who from outside appearances sometimes resembles that, although usually it's me becoming the only expert we have in the domain & seeing how systems really work, not just closing the ticket asap.) I wish we had async/offline systems to follow each others course & suggest some steering rather than being beholden to daily cross examinations where managers get to decide to redirect us off the path we've chosen.
cesaref 2y ago
stuck doesn't mean twiddling your thumbs wondering what to do next - i'd certainly expect someone to ask if they were in that situation. No, stuck can often only be observed by looking in, the person or team may think they are doing useful stuff, but someone coming to it fresh can see that they have missed something obvious, hence why recreating the problem seems to be impossible, or why the fix seems very involved. So a standup can allow you to see that someone is stuck, even when they don't realise it themselves.

If your team is waiting until the next stand-up to get help to get unstuck I think that's a cultural problem, they should be reaching out at any point during the day.

VyseofArcadia 2y ago

I feel like the existence of daily standup has influenced this for my team. There's a lot of, "well I could reach out about this now, but I'll just bring it up at standup and then I'm not interrupting anyone"

marcosdumay 2y ago
Yes. The existence of the meeting makes people delay solving their problems until the next one. This is not something that make teams agile.
- kibibu 2y ago
  The solution? Hourly scrums, daily retrospectives.
  - hrunt 2y ago
    More meetings: both the cause of and solution to our problems!

zokier 2y ago

And now you have people complaining about getting interrupted all the time and breaking their flow.

jauntywundrkind 2y ago

And reporting up to someone whose sole responsibility in the interaction is to detect stuckness or the hint of stuckness or to offer referrals to someone who might make you go faster is tiring as hell. It's quite transparent and grating. I recognize that often there is a good outcome and it helps. People can spin on issues poorly. (And I definitely am a person who from outside appearances sometimes resembles that, although usually it's me becoming the only expert we have in the domain & seeing how systems really work, not just closing the ticket asap.) I wish we had async/offline systems to follow each others course & suggest some steering rather than being beholden to daily cross examinations where managers get to decide to redirect us off the path we've chosen.

cesaref 2y ago

stuck doesn't mean twiddling your thumbs wondering what to do next - i'd certainly expect someone to ask if they were in that situation. No, stuck can often only be observed by looking in, the person or team may think they are doing useful stuff, but someone coming to it fresh can see that they have missed something obvious, hence why recreating the problem seems to be impossible, or why the fix seems very involved. So a standup can allow you to see that someone is stuck, even when they don't realise it themselves.