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I question the idea of having a meeting every day whether you need it or not. I have used stand-ups in the past, but found there was a lot of information being

I question the idea of having a meeting every day whether you need it or not. I have used stand-ups in the past, but found there was a lot of information being shared that not everyone cared about or benefited from knowing. I like the idea of keeping everyone up to date about what's going on, but I am not sure stand-up meetings are the solution.

kzahel 14y ago
If it makes sense, a meeting will happen. I would never run around an office interrupting peoples work just to make them attend a usually pointless "stand-up" It seems like a lot of chest thumping to me.
TianCaiBenBen 14y ago
We had daily stand-up meeting. But I did not attend it any more after talking to manager. I told manager that at the daily stand-up meeting, people just say - what I did yesterday - what I am doing currently Most of the time, each one of us does not care about what other people did yesterday or is doing what today. Only manager care. Though manager get pissed off I still do not want waste my time on it.
- tcharron 14y ago
  I would suggest in that case, that you have a daily status meeting and not a daily stand-up then. It also sounds like you may not have a team either. A group of people sitting together working on tasks unrelated to each other do not make a team.
tcharron 14y ago
Are you all working on different projects/features? That's usually a symptom of teams that aren't really teams. They sit together, but work in completely different worlds and do not really need to communicate together. Teams have a shared goal that they're trying to accomplish together. If you have a team, you are very concerned about what everyone else is working on and struggling with since it will affect where you can help and what you should be working on. That's why Agile teams are small teams. If you're team is too large then you'll end up fragmenting and forming sub teams and not caring what the others are working on since it won't affect you.

kzahel 14y ago

If it makes sense, a meeting will happen. I would never run around an office interrupting peoples work just to make them attend a usually pointless "stand-up" It seems like a lot of chest thumping to me.

TianCaiBenBen 14y ago

We had daily stand-up meeting. But I did not attend it any more after talking to manager. I told manager that at the daily stand-up meeting, people just say - what I did yesterday - what I am doing currently Most of the time, each one of us does not care about what other people did yesterday or is doing what today. Only manager care. Though manager get pissed off I still do not want waste my time on it.

tcharron 14y ago
I would suggest in that case, that you have a daily status meeting and not a daily stand-up then. It also sounds like you may not have a team either. A group of people sitting together working on tasks unrelated to each other do not make a team.

tcharron 14y ago

Are you all working on different projects/features? That's usually a symptom of teams that aren't really teams. They sit together, but work in completely different worlds and do not really need to communicate together. Teams have a shared goal that they're trying to accomplish together. If you have a team, you are very concerned about what everyone else is working on and struggling with since it will affect where you can help and what you should be working on. That's why Agile teams are small teams. If you're team is too large then you'll end up fragmenting and forming sub teams and not caring what the others are working on since it won't affect you.