Comment by zyngaro
5 days ago
People in tech keep complaining about daily standup don't know that is a common practice in pretty much every line of work. It's just a team synchronisation moment.
5 days ago
People in tech keep complaining about daily standup don't know that is a common practice in pretty much every line of work. It's just a team synchronisation moment.
A meeting with that periodicity (or a multiple of it) is common on shift-based jobs that oversee constant operations.
It's not common on any other line of work... well, except for software development, that is almost universally single-shift, non-operational, and some people insist has exactly the same needs as overseeing patients in a hospital.
Yes, it makes sense when there is a "hand off" of continuing operations to the next shift.
For something like software, being produced by ICs or even pairs, a fixed daily meeting is much more likely (at least in my experience) to become a ceremony[1] over time even if it is occasionally or initially beneficial.
[1] was wanting to find a link but could not. I'm using this word in the sense that Tom DeMarco used it in Peopleware.
Ah, you're right, handover procedures between shifts.
That's very surprising to me. Even in tech it became common only a decade or so ago. I don't know any other industry where it is common, except the military and the daily morning flag raising/morning formation...
Used to do a daily stand up at the big box store I worked in.
Last year’s numbers, today’s goal, what needed to go out, etc.
I always wondered what they thought I could do about the numbers. People are either coming to buy stuff or they are not.
It’s a common practice to describe who farted and how loud yesterday?
I've been on daily standups for groups of people who weren't on a team. It was like a floor's #random slack channel.