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If your stand-up is that stressful and takes less than 30 seconds to a minute per speaker, you need to find a better job.
Unless thus is about stand-up comedy. In that case, you're 100% right.
Lol our standup+parking lot is scheduled for an hour. Kill me.
I've fought this battle so many times.
My most recent battle was being told to implement Scrum and agile practices. When the subject of standup NOT being a status update came up, and I forcibly told people to keep their updates brief, it was changed to a "Sync Meeting" that lasted over an hour. Apparently, despite delivering stuff faster, being able to track velocity and ensure we're not overextending ourselves each "sprint", and actually knowing what we're delivering through actionable tasks - we're not doing agile any more...
It took me a year but I broke my team of this habit. The trick was to remind them that the parking lot shouldn't be scheduled. The whole point is that you continue conversations organically so that it's more like the beginning of a working session instead of the end of a meeting.
*more than 30 seconds to a minute?
Correct, edited my post, thanks
I'm happy when it just takes that amount of time, because everything else is just a waste of time...
The stand-ups at my job have turned into sit downs
The whole reason you're supposed to be standing up is to keep them short…
That's the exact problem I have with it