What do developers really think about daily stands (led by a non-developer)?
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AaiT16
Apr 13
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I’m a product manager and the VP of engineering has enforced daily stands for all our developers. They go through the Jira board every morning and say what they’re working on (basically stating what is on the board). If someone has a question for another dev, they’ll say something like “I left a comment, can you respond?” during the stand. To me: I don’t need to know what developers are working on each and every day, which is why our sprints are 2 weeks and why we have a Jira board in the first place. I wish it was used between developers instead to discuss any problems they might be having. Is this useful for anyone?
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I also think standups are a poor place to ask someone to respond to a comment. What’s up with the team communication?
is it excessive to expect blockers every day? And when people don’t have any they run pretty quickly, maybe 5-10 mins, but it still seems disruptive
I feel for this example, asking some to respond to a comment should be asynchronous in slack or something similar.
When we have basic questions we usually ask them at the end of standup for the purpose you mention - everyone is together. If you shift to that model you can likely drop from the call right beforehand