At current job we use a "standup" Slack channel in my group, works well enough.
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#42I found stand-ups problematic. Often they are introduced, because... ...some higher ups have the feeling things aren't going their way. OR ...some people aren't available for questions somehow and you want to pin them down for at least 10min a day to get some information out of them. In both cases the stand-up is just a band-aid for deeper issues like missing or broken processes, Miscommunication or simple that no-on…
Just like anything else, I've seen them done well, but also badly. My current stand-ups last probably 10 mins (never more than 15 mins). It generates questions and discussions that are carried out after the stand-up with a more focused group. If you aim for "transparency" in your process and company culture, I think stand-ups are not intimidating and are not waste of time.
I don't think that talking with groups on a regular basis is a bad idea.
I just think, if such things have to happen synchronously every day, something is going wrong.
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#43My previous team was distributed (SF, TX, NY) used Geekbot in slack for standups, 9:30am local time it would prompt you to enter what you did yesterday, what you'll be working today and any blockers. Geekbot worked good when people put thought into their reports, which was far from always - a lot of the time it'd be "yesterday: wrote code. today: will write code. blockers: everything is awful" which isn't hugely help…
yup, I see a consensus around hangout and some structure. But for remote teams looks like a tool like geekbot would work.
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#44We subsidise our physical / video standup with statushero.com. It definitely helps with engineer engagement!
interesting.. it looks intimidating.... we already have a process in place.. one more tool might be a little too much for us..
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#45Slack channel for small teams and https://idonethis.com for larger teams.
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#46We use standuply on slack. The team size is ~12 people. About half use it every day. Very useful.
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#47I built Standup Jack (standupjack.com) to give you a chance to think thoughtfully about your current and upcoming tasks before sharing them with your team.
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#48We built a tool to solve this exact problem called Standup. https://getstandup.com/. It produces daily progress reports for your engineering team by scanning git data.
We put our reports up the big screen every day during our in person Standups. Every engineer quickly runs through their work items and it definitely eliminates the whole "having to remember and plan on the go".
As a manager, I also love how it helps me catch up on my teams progress every evening as well.
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#49We built a tool to solve this exact problem called Standup. https://getstandup.com/ . It produces daily progress reports for your engineering team by scanning git data. We put our reports up the big screen every day during our in person Standups. Every engineer quickly runs through their work items and it definitely eliminates the whole "having to remember and plan on the go". As a manager, I also love how it helps m…
This product is awesome. We use it every day. Excited to watch it as it grows and gets more features!
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
nice. Does everyone in the team follow the protocol and like it?
Yeah it works quite well. As usual, the biggest problems are with video and mics in meeting rooms with bad acoustics. Everything else is good. #achievements works especially well because it gives a persistent, short-form log that people can read quickly when they come back from days off, for instance.
We minimized that problem by using a free app on a smart-phone that turned it into a microphone for the PC running the Skype call. Team members in the room would pass the phone around.