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

If there really are no blockers, then it is kind of pointless.

If there are blockers, a tool is likely less useful than face-to-face.  In
particular, when there are issues that are not quite blockers, body
language will often reveal it, whereas a tool just says no blockers.

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:52 AM Tim Ottinger via Groups.Io <linux_tim=
[email protected]> wrote:

> Status meetings can be done via tools.
>
> I don’t need to hear “i worked on 4534 after finishing 4640 yesterday.
> Today I’ll be working on 4534 some more. No blockers”
>
> I certainly don’t want to talk about all the cards on the wall.
>
> I want to plan the day’s attack and hear what we can do to be most useful
> to each other and the goal of the project. I don’t want a ticket status
> report.  Like everyone else at the meeting, I’ll be trying to look
> interested while waiting my turn to speak, then trying to look interested
> until I can go back to work.
>
> How much do I really care about the 80% status on ticket 7763? I don’t
> know what any of these numbers mean anyway. And if I’m not going to work on
> it today why is it my problem?
>
> Unloading a lot of baggage, I know, but status meetings as I see them at
> so many corporations are precisely that.
>
> “Cindy?”
> “Worked on 3345 yesterday. Working on it still. No blockers.”
> “What percent done?”
> “Maybe 75.”
> “Okay, Bob?”
> “I worked on 4356 yesterday. I’ll probably finish it today. No blockers”
> “Okay, Ish?”
> “Still working on 7721. No blockers. Maybe 80% done.”
> “Okay, Priti?”
>
> Yaaaaaaaawn.
>
>
>
>
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS>
>
> On Monday, November 18, 2019, 11:45 AM, Ron Jeffries <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> why?
>
> sent from iPad, probably via Mars. Errors, if any, are not mine.
> [email protected] is a better address for me, maybe.
>
> On Nov 18, 2019, at 12:44 PM, Tim Ottinger via Groups.Io <linux_tim=
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> *Ew.*
> *Yuck. *
> *Count me out, please*
>
> 
>
>

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