{"id":113,"date":"2012-09-28T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/stand-up-meetings-dont-steal-your-time\/"},"modified":"2019-02-22T12:41:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T15:41:02","slug":"stand-up-meetings-dont-steal-your-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/stand-up-meetings-dont-steal-your-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand-up meetings don’t steal your time"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been in some teams in the past that people were seeing stand-ups as a burden.<\/p>\n

We’ve heard various complaints:<\/p>\n

“I wish I could do some real work in the time I spent in stand-ups”<\/i>
\n“I don’t care what the team does, I have my isolated work to do”<\/i>
\n“I can’t wake up in the mornings.<\/i>”<\/p>\n

First of all stand-ups are not unique to software development. Toyota is using a different kind of stand-up for years and it has been proved by the years that it works. These meetings are called Obeya<\/i> meetings. Pete Abilla<\/a> wrote a very good article on Obeya and how it improves the flow.<\/p>\n

He says:<\/p>\n

“..Again, basic combinatorics teaches us that as the number of agents involved in a process increases, the communication links between those agents increases exponentially, thus allowing for a potentialy Nx<\/sup> communication-link breakdown.\u00a0 To manage that, scheduled but quick Obeya meetings can help, as well as as-needed informal meetings between individuals and groups.<\/i>..”<\/p>\n

So as your team grows, your communication links increase exponentially. With stand-ups, you cover a lot of these links in a short time.<\/p>\n

Another myth on stand-ups is about whether a team needs stand-ups every day or not. Having a 20 minute stand-up will consume 4.12% of your daily time. It will add up to a 1\/5 of a day in a week. So the question on the necessity of having stand-ups every day is valid.<\/p>\n

It is not very easy to realize this immediately but actually stand-ups don’t steal your time. Because of the stand-ups, the number of the meetings decreases. So having them every day eventually is a big time-saver.“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been in some teams in the past that people were seeing stand-ups as a burden. We’ve heard various complaints: “I wish I could do some real work in the time I spent in stand-ups” “I don’t care what the team does, I have my isolated work to do” “I can’t wake up in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1941],"tags":[684,794],"inception_activities":[],"colaboradores":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procuts-management","tag-meeting-en","tag-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"inception_activities","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inception_activities?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"colaboradores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colaboradores?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}