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

I don't know if this is accurate, but when I was first introduced to
the term it was explained this way: On some early XP team, they were
practicing "sit together" by working at a single table in the middle
of the room. Each day when they wanted to touch base and plan the
day's work, they found most of the team members continued to look at
their monitors and type on their keyboards while others were talking.
They decided to stand up. That way, their hands couldn't reach the
keyboards and they broke eye contact with their monitors. They ended
up standing in a circle looking at each other.

Even if that isn't historically accurate, I like the story.

Since then, the idea has become corrupted, as so many ideas do. I've
been in "stand up" meetings that lasted three hours, and people were
getting leg cramps and back pain, leaning on the table for support, as
the meeting dragged on and on.

On 11/13/19, George Paci <[email protected]> wrote:
> All,
>
> 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:
>
> 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:
>
> http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/standupmeeting.html
>
> (and he keeps them as two words: "Stand Up").
>
> I figure Laurent would know this off the top of his head.... :-)
>
> —George Paci
>
>    Doing Agile since (a month) before it was called Agile
>
>
>
> 
>
>

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