We do what I call a shotgun standup twice a week. But it is done async 99% of the time.
Every Tuesday and Thursday we have 30 minutes that conveniently coincides with opening of the coffee shop in the office (two of us are onsite, six remote) prior to which the team is intended to write three bullets in the meeting chat:
Prio one yesterday - and outcome
Prio one today
Any blockers discovered for either of those
If nobody posts a blocker, then we get 30 minutes on the calendar where nobody from outside our team can schedule anything. And the onsite folks get the freshest coffee before everyone else gets down there.
If there is a blocker; the person who called it out and the most experienced person in dealing with that type of blocker will join the call, as will anyone interested in the outcome. Once the blocker is resolved, the solution is put into the same meeting chat.
Haha, fair enough. I was just describing one way that ‘standups’ can be less annoying.
Prio = Priority. As in which task we were primarily working on.
Blocker = Some lack of resources, skills, budget, policy, or infrastructure, that is blocking someone from completing a task.
I hope that’s not like a shotgun wedding. But anyway this sounds like a good idea more or less.
Even better if they scheduled it half an hour after the coffee shop opens.
Our stand-ups are always on and I think folks here forgot the idea of a stand up … Nobody stands and so it runs a full half hour. I guess the time isn’t as bad as it sounds because it is a massive system.
We do what I call a shotgun standup twice a week. But it is done async 99% of the time.
Every Tuesday and Thursday we have 30 minutes that conveniently coincides with opening of the coffee shop in the office (two of us are onsite, six remote) prior to which the team is intended to write three bullets in the meeting chat:
If nobody posts a blocker, then we get 30 minutes on the calendar where nobody from outside our team can schedule anything. And the onsite folks get the freshest coffee before everyone else gets down there.
If there is a blocker; the person who called it out and the most experienced person in dealing with that type of blocker will join the call, as will anyone interested in the outcome. Once the blocker is resolved, the solution is put into the same meeting chat.
I understood most of those words, and still have very little idea of what is going on. Something to do with coffee?
I have no idea what a prio is, or a blocker in this context.
Haha, fair enough. I was just describing one way that ‘standups’ can be less annoying.
Prio = Priority. As in which task we were primarily working on. Blocker = Some lack of resources, skills, budget, policy, or infrastructure, that is blocking someone from completing a task.
I hope that’s not like a shotgun wedding. But anyway this sounds like a good idea more or less.
Even better if they scheduled it half an hour after the coffee shop opens.
Our stand-ups are always on and I think folks here forgot the idea of a stand up … Nobody stands and so it runs a full half hour. I guess the time isn’t as bad as it sounds because it is a massive system.