Semi-agreed on daily standups – the regular accountability drives productivity for a lot of people, but I also agree that daily is excessive. We’ve settled on 3 days/week and it works pretty well for both camps - 2 is probably fine, but 1 I would argue is missing the point.
Def agreed on 15 minutes, as you say - any longer and you lose both people and the purpose of the check-in.
Flip daily around and it becomes much more useful.
Instead of everyone reporting what they did, go through the board and look at tickets, with a focus on tickets in hand-over states (waiting for review, waiting for tests, …). That way the daily can actually help progress stuck tickets.
At the end, ask if anyone doesn’t have enough work and needs new tickets (to catch the potential problem of running out of work).
Doesn’t take more than a few minutes and focusses on the things where the daily can actually help, instead of turning it into the daily exercise of “Yesterday I had a ton of meetings. Today I’ll have a ton of meetings. Bye.” That kind of stuff is worthless.
Semi-agreed on daily standups – the regular accountability drives productivity for a lot of people, but I also agree that daily is excessive. We’ve settled on 3 days/week and it works pretty well for both camps - 2 is probably fine, but 1 I would argue is missing the point.
Def agreed on 15 minutes, as you say - any longer and you lose both people and the purpose of the check-in.
Flip daily around and it becomes much more useful.
Instead of everyone reporting what they did, go through the board and look at tickets, with a focus on tickets in hand-over states (waiting for review, waiting for tests, …). That way the daily can actually help progress stuck tickets.
At the end, ask if anyone doesn’t have enough work and needs new tickets (to catch the potential problem of running out of work).
Doesn’t take more than a few minutes and focusses on the things where the daily can actually help, instead of turning it into the daily exercise of “Yesterday I had a ton of meetings. Today I’ll have a ton of meetings. Bye.” That kind of stuff is worthless.