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I've also seen these meetings used as a way for people to "prove" that they have been working. The main problem I have with mandatory meetings is that they oft
by kzahel 14y ago
I've also seen these meetings used as a way for people to "prove" that they have been working.
The main problem I have with mandatory meetings is that they often impair one's ability to get work done. Some people work best when uninterrupted by a meeting. Some people work best when they get an entire morning without interruption. These meetings seem to be mostly sitting waiting for the last person to arrive, or for the cat wrangler to get started with proceedings.
- tcharron 14y agoRemember, it's more important to build the right thing than it is to build lots of stuff. It's better to have the daily stand-up, interrupt your productivity a little bit and discover what you're working on shouldn't be worked on at all, than it is to work for days on something only to have to throw it out and start all over again because you didn't know that something changed. Far too many organizations focus too much on individual productivity and far too little on delivering things that are actually valuable to their customers. That's not to say individuals shouldn't be productive, just that writing code all the time doesn't necessarily mean you will be successful as a business. If the start time is a problem, bring it up at your retrospective and see how the rest of the team feels about it.