For you perhaps but for the scrum master it helps identify whether the sprint is on track and whether there are any new discoveries/realities identified during the previous days work that might impact the Sprint’s goals.
This is fundamental to the emperical nature of scrum: there is no improvement without inspection.
Yet another way that the good ideas from Agile got crushed to meaninglessness by Business Idiocy.
The whole point of the “stand up meeting” is to encourage everyone to keep it brief and to the point, so it benefits everyone without sucking their time.
I did have actual stand ups once, after coming back from China and all I could think of was “shit I hope they don’t make us sing the corp’s anthem at the end!” like they do over there…
I dunno exactly what they sang, but yeah, they would absolutely sing something at the beginning of the day, lined up on the pavement outside their office, with the manager directing like some sort of corpo choral. I guess it’s one of those team building things…
i fucking hate daily standups. such a pointless waste of time.
For you perhaps but for the scrum master it helps identify whether the sprint is on track and whether there are any new discoveries/realities identified during the previous days work that might impact the Sprint’s goals.
This is fundamental to the emperical nature of scrum: there is no improvement without inspection.
Especially when they’re called “standups” but everybody sits down because they typically last an hour or so.
Yet another way that the good ideas from Agile got crushed to meaninglessness by Business Idiocy.
The whole point of the “stand up meeting” is to encourage everyone to keep it brief and to the point, so it benefits everyone without sucking their time.
Of course, that works only when everyone’s in the same room. I don’t have a good replacement for teams that connect remotely.
I did have actual stand ups once, after coming back from China and all I could think of was “shit I hope they don’t make us sing the corp’s anthem at the end!” like they do over there…
Please explain this corporate anthem further…
I dunno exactly what they sang, but yeah, they would absolutely sing something at the beginning of the day, lined up on the pavement outside their office, with the manager directing like some sort of corpo choral. I guess it’s one of those team building things…
Kind of like what they do at Walmart?
Wait, do they seriously have corporate anthems in China? I thought that only happened in the sprawl trilogy o.O