Previously
Gentlemen
Welcome to Stand-up
The first rule of Stand-up is
You must do Daily Stand-up
The second rule of Stand-up is
YOU MUST DO STAND-UP
The third rule of Stand-up
Same time every day
The fourth rule of Stand-up
[Keep it short!]
If you're going to do Stand-up
You have to Stand
My name is Gary Straughan
Welcome to Development That Pays.
My thanks to everyone who took the time to let me know their rules for
Daily Stand-up.
Some awesome stuff here.
Some ideas that were new to me.
And plenty of common themes.
I was curious to know if your rules agreed
with mine
No one questioned the need for daily stand-up
So these two rules stand
What about Rule 3?
Lots of agreement of picking a time and sticking
to it.
And some ideas for enabling it
Like a reminder beforehand
And a penalty for non-compliance
Rule 4: Keep it short.
That's a tricky one.
Let's come back to that one.
Rule 5 - Stand up!
This got exactly one mention.
And even then it was in relation to a multi-location
team.
I completely get that it's a bit weird to stand up in front of a video conference camera
I have to ask:
Has this rule had its day?
Is the physical act of standing up not providing
the benefit it promised?
Let me know in the comments below.
Where are we?
So far we have three rules that are solid,
And one where the jury's still out.
Let's go back to..
Rule 4 - Keep it short.
There was good agreement on the need to keep
Stand-up short.
And no shortage of suggestions on how to achieve it.
Which is a bit of a problem for my list of
simple rules.
Because keeping stand-up short is far from
simple.
If it were simple, we could set an egg timer
for 15 minutes.
Hell, why not 10 minutes.
But no one suggested an egg timer.
And no one suggested an alarm.
And I'm glad they didn't
Because time is not the issue.
The issue is that Stand-up should be efficient
and effective.
It should "work".
That's the issue. That's the aim.
Keeping is short is the by-product.
So we now need to go beyond a simple list of rules
And get in to the detail of  what makes stand-up "work"
We'll begin that journey in the next episode
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