Yet another way that the good ideas from Agile got crushed to meaninglessness by Business Idiocy.
The whole point of the “stand up meeting” is, by forcing everyone to stand together, to encourage everyone to keep it brief and to the point, so it benefits everyone without sucking their time.
I did have actual stand ups once, after coming back from China and all I could think of was “shit I hope they don’t make us sing the corp’s anthem at the end!” like they do over there…
I don’t know exactly what they sing, but yeah, singing together before a shift starts is fairly common over there. Used to see the delivery men do it before taking off for the day. Same with the local estate agent branch down the street where I lived.
I did not know that. But it reeks so much of corpo team building I would not be surprised in the least. Do they do that out on the street, though?
My first thought when I saw this was “oh, that must be the hazing for the new recruits! How amusing!”
It was not. It was a daily thing.
I dunno exactly what they sang, but yeah, they would absolutely sing something at the beginning of the day, lined up on the pavement outside their office, with the manager directing like some sort of corpo choral. I guess it’s one of those team building things…
For you perhaps but for the scrum master it helps identify whether the sprint is on track and whether there are any new discoveries/realities identified during the previous days work that might impact the Sprint’s goals.
This is fundamental to the emperical nature of scrum: there is no improvement without inspection.
i fucking hate daily standups. such a pointless waste of time.
Especially when they’re called “standups” but everybody sits down because they typically last an hour or so.
Yet another way that the good ideas from Agile got crushed to meaninglessness by Business Idiocy.
The whole point of the “stand up meeting” is, by forcing everyone to stand together, to encourage everyone to keep it brief and to the point, so it benefits everyone without sucking their time.
Of course, that works only when everyone’s in the same room. I don’t have a good replacement for teams that connect remotely.
We have a NeatBoard that’s configured for Zoom. So our stand ups are in front of this TV thing and it works well for us.
Then again, our stand ups are short and to the point. We’re closer to kanban than scrum.
I did have actual stand ups once, after coming back from China and all I could think of was “shit I hope they don’t make us sing the corp’s anthem at the end!” like they do over there…
Wait, do they seriously have corporate anthems in China? I thought that only happened in the sprawl trilogy o.O
I don’t know exactly what they sing, but yeah, singing together before a shift starts is fairly common over there. Used to see the delivery men do it before taking off for the day. Same with the local estate agent branch down the street where I lived.
Kind of like what they do at Walmart?
I did not know that. But it reeks so much of corpo team building I would not be surprised in the least. Do they do that out on the street, though? My first thought when I saw this was “oh, that must be the hazing for the new recruits! How amusing!”
It was not. It was a daily thing.
Please explain this corporate anthem further…
I dunno exactly what they sang, but yeah, they would absolutely sing something at the beginning of the day, lined up on the pavement outside their office, with the manager directing like some sort of corpo choral. I guess it’s one of those team building things…
Thanks, I hate it.
For you perhaps but for the scrum master it helps identify whether the sprint is on track and whether there are any new discoveries/realities identified during the previous days work that might impact the Sprint’s goals.
This is fundamental to the emperical nature of scrum: there is no improvement without inspection.