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Stupid title.

Weekly doesn't work for us because we're running a kanban-style process and things change a lot for us. But our meetings are super short most days.

We switched to a hybrid live/async stand-up. We use an automation to post status updates to Slack then jump on to discuss blockers and priorities.

Agile is old. A bunch of the ideas from the manifesto, like f2f communication being best, don't hold up in 2020. We basically made up our own style based on agile, scrum, kanban an…

I like the "unfocused" part. Constant context switching and lack of understanding priorities is a silent killer. As a lead I try to protect my crew from working on too many differe…

I agree some internal, non-production alerts can be both important and urgent. If we merged a big branch without review for some reason, the team needs to have a conversation about…

I know. The bot sucks!!! Sorry... it's my fault. My boss, Dan the author, just yelled at me and I turned it off :-)

Sorry! We know the bot sucks and we just turned it off. Lame marketing people.

Shots fired! It's true though. Using Jira is a struggle.

You have to be an expert in every person on your team job in order to be an effective manager? Not so sure about that part. But I love the hands on automation work he did when he s…

Love this part... “Early on, I figured out that while we have awesome technologists, probably among the brightest in the world, no one knew how to manage development, release, and …

"Keep your instincts. Change your behavior." Great point. The best dev leads know what their people are dealing with but respond as a leader versus a hands-on dev.

Great article! Thanks for sharing.

Maybe it is time to recognize that Scrum (and other variants) didnt really learn anything from Waterfall and need to be revamped altogether. I.e. this makes me cry - "If they do ta…

I like the thing about "dude and a half". It's very true. I can't tell you how many times I had a sales rep ask me when a feature that was supposedly on the roadmap was going to be…

What's an example of a metric that engineering and product contribute to equally?

I'm not sure I'm buying the argument that PRs are a repository for institutional knowledge. But I do think thorough reviews are important if you work at a company that has a lot of…

Very true! The article doesn't mention that individual teams can't agree but that's another reason velocity is sketchy. Java-man, I take it you don't track velocity? What metrics d…

Are VPs really sharing velocity with the CEO? I've never seen that. But I agree it doesn't make sense to try to use story points completed to do comparative performance measurement…

Assume positive intent is one of the most important ideas for teams. Especially right now when we are never in the same room and many of the non-verbal communication clues are gone…

Risky? You sound like an agile coach :-)

Code changes are up and coding time is up... I think developers are taking more time to work on tasks. We get pressure to merge when we're in the office. Now we have more time to e…

What's wrong with measuring velocity? I find it useful.