First of all, it's such a pain to schedule. Impossible to have it first thing in the morning cause there is always a clown who doesn't show up before 10am. Tough to have it just before lunch cause not everybody eats at the same time. So usually it's around 10:30am or 11am. A nice 15 minute interruption in the middle of the morning.
Second, you have the one who says "yesterday I did the API, today I do the API", the one who starts detailing all the modules he wrote yesterday, including how he named all his variables, and the one who starts a "we do it live" design session.
I killed standup on my team and replaced it with a slack channel. Just post your update between 8 and 11 and we're all good. If you're blocked I assume you'll be a grown up and ask for help.
Have you considered moving it to the end of the day? So rather than signal the start of day, signal the end.
First, that disconnects showing up to work from standups. Second, I think people have a better idea of what they did and what they are bothered about for tomorrow (i.e. the blockers)
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[ 92.2 ms ] story [ 362 ms ] threadFirst of all, it's such a pain to schedule. Impossible to have it first thing in the morning cause there is always a clown who doesn't show up before 10am. Tough to have it just before lunch cause not everybody eats at the same time. So usually it's around 10:30am or 11am. A nice 15 minute interruption in the middle of the morning.
Second, you have the one who says "yesterday I did the API, today I do the API", the one who starts detailing all the modules he wrote yesterday, including how he named all his variables, and the one who starts a "we do it live" design session.
I killed standup on my team and replaced it with a slack channel. Just post your update between 8 and 11 and we're all good. If you're blocked I assume you'll be a grown up and ask for help.
First, that disconnects showing up to work from standups. Second, I think people have a better idea of what they did and what they are bothered about for tomorrow (i.e. the blockers)