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I've watched a lot of teams do standups. Very interesting to see how different folks handle it. One thing that strikes me as unusual is that the benefit of the
by DanielBMarkham 14y ago
I've watched a lot of teams do standups. Very interesting to see how different folks handle it.
One thing that strikes me as unusual is that the benefit of the stand-up is not always visible to those participating in it! So I'll see people with lots of Scrum or Agile experience say "We're a mature team. We don't need no stinking stand-up" -- then make a bone-headed mistake that would have been caught by simply talking more to each other.
Maybe my sample size is small (100-200 teams), but to me stand-ups are like brushing your teeth: you don't want to take all day with it, it doesn't really seem to do much while you're doing it, and it pays off in a big way over time.
- tosh 14y agoLove the brushing teeth analogy.
- tcharron 14y agoAs I mentioned in another comment, they likely forgot the purpose of the daily stand-up, which is to have everyone be on the same page everyday. If they're doing that without a daily stand-up, then fine, but it's usually quite difficult to do in teams larger than 2-3 people, which may explain why they lost the value when they stopped doing it. It's not hard to do the daily stand-up and there can be many ways to make it more of a team building experience. I use Improv with the teams I work with (see: http://ow.ly/dOmJJ http://ow.ly/dOmJJ)
- tcharron 14y agoSorry, original owly link was broken, try: http://ow.ly/dOqfI http://ow.ly/dOqfI