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

"George Dinwiddie" <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:52:01 -0500
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Douglas,

I think the key to a good standup is collaboration. Everybody 
understands the totality of the current effort and how their efforts 
relate to that.

  - George

On 11/18/19 3:43 AM, Douglas Waugh wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> I’d be interested in your opinion of what makes a very good stand up and 
> what makes a harmful one.
> 
> Would you be able to give us a few pointers?  What is the main value you 
> see the stand up providing?
> 
> Douglas
> 
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> *From:* [email protected] on behalf of Alex Fürstenau 
> <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 17, 2019 11:50 am
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [extremeprogramming] Origin of term "standup"?
> 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] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>>
>> It's one of those things that  seem to have gone horribly horribly 
>> wrong out in the wild.....
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> Done.
>>
>> Back to work.
>>
>> 2 minutes max, all done.
>>
>> Sigh!
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 6:53 AM George Paci <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> John Carter
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