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I'd rather have a 5-10 minute standup than have to write such an oddly detailed report twice a week on what I "weighted" in on.

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I would probably spend an hour or two just writing something like that. On the surface, I'd agree.

With that said, in my experience, many stand-up formats devolve into some version of "the two most talkative people have a conversation for 30 minutes while everyone else listens". I'd probably get more value out of doing a write-up than sitting through a meeting like that.

It really depends on the health of the stand-ups on the team.

Yeah, I would also generally agree. But what they are showing is the 'Basecamp workflow', where instead of monopolizing a meeting or posting walls of text on slack or sending an email, you surface the issues on the project management level, where everyone can find it. It's their thing.

RIght, this is just way too much information and detail, and seems designed to look good in front of management rather than to inform team-mates, who presumably know a lot of the details anyway.

Same. I don't want to have to write OR read those reports, and a quick daily stand-up is far better, IMO, for effective communication.

I think there is an argument here with no right answer. Writing can have such a better signal to noise ratio but it’s harder to write well. Talking is easy but it’s also easy to forget something in the spot or ramble on too much without editing.

> Writing can have such a better signal to noise ratio

It can, but in my experience with employers who push async as primary communication, the noise is MUCH higher than regularly scheduled stand-ups.

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