Re: [extremeprogramming] Origin of term "standup"?

Alex Fürstenau <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:26:56 +0100
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I still believe they are valuable for „teams“ who don’t talk to each other for weeks, and as always I have seen some very good implementations over the years.

Of cause there are also a lot of harmful implementations but I think the value of the good ones outweigh the value of the bad ones.


> Am 13.11.2019 um 23:53 schrieb John Carter via Groups.Io <[email protected]>:
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> It's one of those things that  seem to have gone horribly horribly wrong out in the wild.....
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> Way back when, when I still believed standups  to be a Good Idea, people came together, and didn't bother to sit because it was going to be so short.
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> They said, mostly by pointing at/moving the sticky on the board what they were working on, and if they were stuck, asked for help. (Which wasn't given in the standup)
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> Done.
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> Back to work.
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> 2 minutes max, all done.
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> Sigh!
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> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 6:53 AM George Paci <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> All,
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> Glad to see this group getting saved from oblivion: thanks, Joe!
> 
> An interesting question came up at work today: where did the term 
> "standup" originate?
> 
> I've found a reference from Jeff Sutherland explaining the origins of 
> the meeting (and the practice of standing up), but he doesn't explicitly 
> claim to have invented the name:
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> https://www.scruminc.com/origins-daily-standup/ <https://www.scruminc.com/origins-daily-standup/>
> 
> I see it mentioned on Don Wells's XP site with a 1999 copyright, but I'm 
> not sure that's an accurate date:
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> http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/standupmeeting.html <http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/standupmeeting.html>
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> (and he keeps them as two words: "Stand Up").
> 
> I figure Laurent would know this off the top of his head.... :-)
> 
> —George Paci
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