I struggle to understand why people hate daily this hard
What so bad about having to tell what you've been doing yesterday? one up to few sentences per person, 10-15min max?
What so bad about having to tell what you've been doing yesterday? one up to few sentences per person, 10-15min max?
* In order to mostly stand there and listen to irrelevant or redundant information
* So that when it’s your turn you can say something that the listeners don’t care about, that could have been a Slack message
The first point can be slightly mitigated by placing the standup directly before or after lunch or another meeting, or at the beginning of the workday, so at least you were already going to have to put down your task.
"can we expect that done by stand up tomorrow?"
"will that be a problem?"
"let's have a quick meeting to discuss in 45 minutes"
What value does that provide anybody? Our tools can tell you what I've been working on. You can see the item I have in progress. If I'm blocked, I'm not waiting until tomorrow's standup. If I need to collaborate, I'll schedule a meeting or start a chat.
If you need to know what I did yesterday, either you don't trust me, or you don't know how to use the tools we have to track these things.
Instead of 15-60 minutes of synchronous time, it could be replaced by an email that takes two minutes to write and 30 seconds to read.
Therefore any mandatory social interaction will be met with resistance, even if it's useful for knowledge sharing or for letting your boss know how things are progressing or if they have to change resource allocation.
We can afford 5-10 minutes to chat.
Most of us spend an order of magnitude more time dicking around per day (as we should, for it's intellectual work)