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No manager in the meeting. No one to impress. Everybody stands. Light banter at the beginning because we're a team. One person leads the standup, round robin each time. Standup leader takes notes to paste in chat after, hurries people the f up if they're going on and on. Lastly, if you are late to standup even by 1 minute, you have to sing a song of Standup Leader's choice.

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Yeah. "Let's take that offline/out of the meeting" when someone talks longer than 1 minute (longer than 30 seconds if it's a larger team).

By the way, I was at a place that did XP, and one of the rules was that if there was a meeting, there had to be food. What that did is, if someone was talking too much, someone would ask them "Are you going to eat that?" That, um, gently if not subtly told them to stop talking so much. Also, it meant that we got to snack.

we used to call ‘parking lot’ as in ‘Let’s take this outside’. Then when the standup ended, those that wanted to get in on the topics on the parking lot would stick around.

And for every minute you ran late, you had to do a push up.

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