Stand-Up Meetings Should Stand Down

We’re Missing a Great Opportunity Here

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Another day, another meeting. In this case, it’s a stand-up meeting to report our progress on the current feature.

Blocked

The CI isn’t working and the backend is coupled to the frontend. Brilliantly, we test the backend through the frontend (professional!) so when there’s a bug at least three people need to attend a meeting.

As well as the stand-up and other ceremonies.

We love Agile ceremonies, right?

Background to The Agile Stand-up

Stand-up meetings are designed to keep an Agile software team informed and connected.

It has to be good for something, right?

I claim that, given the right circumstance they have become a forum for software developers to become arrogant both with respect to their job and other software developers.

The issues

The structure: faulty

The age-old agile drill:

• What did I work on yesterday?
• What am I working on today?
• What issues are blocking me?