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Re: Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room

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10 minute standup , woof

My team has 15min standups, in holiday times we regularly stop after 10min. Very focussed on the sprint goal and getting each other unstuck- it's great. Much better than the "let's walk over every issue on the jira board and argue about technical implementations".

Re: Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room

#5

The solution to the "50 minute meetings always stretch to an hour" problem is to start them at, say, 9:10am so there's a clean mental stop at 10am. If you schedule them for 9am of course nobody will stop at 9:50am.

I presume in that case each meeting would just stretch to 10 over the hour.

Re: Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room

#7

10 minute standup , woof

My team has 15min standups, in holiday times we regularly stop after 10min. Very focussed on the sprint goal and getting each other unstuck- it's great. Much better than the "let's walk over every issue on the jira board and argue about technical implementations".

This is generally how my team works, but we don't have a hard cap on the time. I just think nobody wants to debate about technical implementations early in the morning.

Re: Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room

#8
At MIT, lectures must follow MIT time; all lectures are expected to start 5 minutes after the hour, and end 5 minutes before. Funnily this means each lecture is about one microcentury long. Exams are the one exception, they start on the dot.

https://oge.mit.edu/mit-time/

Re: Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room

#10

10 minute standup , woof

In my world stand-ups are mainly status, blockers and other ops/admin updates.

No functional/topic discussions. If they’re required you schedule those in the standup and decide who participates.

No need to expand beyond 15min in that mode.

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