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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 mom
by zyngaro 10mo 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.
- wiseowise 10mo agoIt’s a common practice to describe who farted and how loud yesterday?
- myth_drannon 10mo agoThat'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...
- doubled112 10mo agoUsed 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.
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- marcosdumay 10mo agoA 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.
- SoftTalker 10mo agoYes, 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.
- myth_drannon 10mo agoAh, you're right, handover procedures between shifts.
- browningstreet 10mo agoI've been on daily standups for groups of people who weren't on a team. It was like a floor's #random slack channel.