The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die
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The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die
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Re: The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die
#2A better title (supported somewhat by the article) is "standup needs to die". If you have a task list and keep it updated, you don't need to meet daily.
If you do meet daily, though, these 3 questions are still useful.
Re: The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die
#3Any blockers? If blockers have been resolved immediately then the short answer to the question will be no. Otherwise it will be yes.
Sounds like a decent question to me.
Re: The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die
#4I have always complemented the three questions with a row-by-row look at the current stories or goals for the team, with the guiding question there being “what do we need to do to achieve this goal?”
The two are complementary in that the person-by-person polling helps flush out which people might need some extra help or swap around tasks.
Re: The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die
#5The primary point of standup is to make sure the team gets face-time together every day to talk about their shared workload. Humans are social creatures and getting everyone together for a few minutes is a pretty high ROI activity.
Re: The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die
#6Daily stand-ups are terrible and need to die.
Re: The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die
#7Any blockers? If blockers have been resolved immediately then the short answer to the question will be no . Otherwise it will be yes . Sounds like a decent question to me.
I hate standup culture. If you have a blocker waiting until the next morning is so wasteful.
Re: The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die
#8A better title (supported somewhat by the article) is "standup needs to die". If you have a task list and keep it updated, you don't need to meet daily. If you do meet daily, though, these 3 questions are still useful.
I support daily standup (and stand down as needed) during times of churn / tight deadlines. These should be exceptions not the rule.
The current use of stand up meetings as status meetings while also expecting everyone to be interruptible all day every day is a joke. It's just people reverting to desire for power to "see what people are doing".
I think a healthy, highly functioning team needs to meet once or twice a week at designated times and otherwise, _ESPECIALLY_ for remote teams, comms should be free flowing and work tracking tools up to date enough that no scheduled meeting is needed as it is pointless repetition.
Re: The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die
#9I think that the author is making a mountain out of a molehill. But even aside from that, they don't really give an argument for the thesis. Things like "Focuses on activity, not outcomes" are not evidence for something being harmful. It's just arguing against buzzwords with buzzwords.
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