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Standups: Individual → Teammate

I was asked about standup meetings the other day— When should they be run? How long? What topics? How big a team? What questions? People Hang on. We’re missing the point here. What fundamental human need is met by a morning standup? Not what does the team need or the organization need or the users need. The geeks, when they meet in the morning, what’s going on?

It’s tempting to view the activities of a software development team as a kind of board full of knobs/levers/gauges. I’m not going to guess which one of these sets of roles is Bruce Banner & which is The Hulk for you, but the transition between is painful. That’s what the standup meeting is there for—to give everyone a moment to say, “Oh, yeah, okay, these people & their needs are going to be important to me for the next 9 hours.” Take a breath.

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