Daily stand-ups are a cornerstone of agile software development – but often they’re seen as a burden or a distraction. Why? Because they frequently devolve into long status reports that bore participants and add little real value.
Others see it as a waste of time or such regular part of their day, that it doesn’t deserve a second though.
During the past two years, together with my team, I worked on improving our daily to transform it to a tool that helps every participant to kickstart their day. In this blogpost I share tips that might be useful also for your team.
What Is the Purpose of a Daily Meeting – and What It Isn’t
I often see complains on developers forums that a daily meetings are used only as a control mechanism – a way for managers to check up on what everyone did yesterday.
Since I trust my team, I’ve designed our daily meetings to bring real value to developers.
Instead of treating the daily as a status report, we use it as a chance for:
syncing plans and priorities for the current day,
and priorities for the current day, signaling blockers early so the team can help,
early so the team can help, encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing ,
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