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Standup Meeting
Standup Meeting Tips for Pros
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Keep them to 10 people or less.
Literally stand up to help keep them short—
ideally 15 minutes or less, 30 if you absolutely
have to, but then kick everyone out.
Meet at the same time, same place, every
day, ideally in the morning, and make them
mandatory.
Only people with direct, immediate impact on
the progress of the iteration should participate;
this is typically the development team and
possibly a tester, marketing, etc.
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Laura: OK, my code’s all checked in. But I need another couple days to
refactor it. A way better design came to me last night at the gym!
Mark: No way. Have you seen some of the documentation Bob put in
there? I mean, it’s English, I guess, but it needs some work. So no time for
more code changes; we’ve got to work on the documentation.
Bob: Hey—back off. It says what the code does, right? Besides, we really
need to test more. Everybody’s tests pass, but I’m just not convinced the
user isn’t going to get confused navigating through some of the site’s
pages. And I’d like to run the app for at least a day straight, make sure
we’re not chewing up resources somewhere.
Laura: But we’re going to have to add more complex ordering in the
next iteration; the current framework just isn’t going to hold up. I need to
get in there and sort this out before we build more on top of it.
Mark: Are you listening? The documentation’s awful; that’s got to be
the priority with the time we’ve got left.
Bob: We need to focus on the project—how did our burn-down rate look
this iteration? Where did we spend our time?
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Everyone must feel comfortable talking honestly:
standups are about communication and
bringing the whole team to bear on immediate
problems.
Always report on what you did yesterday, what you’re
going to do today, and what is holding you up. Focus
on the outstanding tasks!
Take things offline to solve bigger issues—
remember, 15 minutes.
Standups should build the sense of team:
be supportive, solve hard issues offline, and
communicate!