Stand-up: Why I hated it? How I started to enjoy it?

Stand-up. One of the daily practices that Agilists follow. Reality bites. I have had the luxury to both experience and observe that it tends to mean different thing to different people at different times within the life-time of the project - be it the teams are new or seasoned in Agile practices.

In this talk I share those things that drain the purpose and agenda of the stand-up. It is very important for teams to understand the different things that one should be weary about. Having understood that, it then becomes equally important to find ways to make stand-up enjoyable and productive. The second part of my talk would focus on this area.

Transcript

1. Standup Why I hated it? How I started to enjoy it? Karthik Sirasanagandla Agile Coach @ Industrial Logic 2012 October
4. Why I HATE the ceremonial daily standup?
5. Long and Unproductive
7. Lack Of Preparation
9. Poor Communication
11. Story-telling
14. Lack of punctuality
16. Absenteeism
19. In-fighting
22. Immaturity
26. Childhood is time when you like Jerry and admire his smartness Maturity is time when you understand that Jerry is a complete asshole and you feel sorry for Tom
27. Summarizing why I hated standup  Long and unproductive  Lack of preparation  Poor communication  Story telling  Lack of punctuality  Absenteeism  Infighting  Immaturity
28. Solution(s)???
30. How I started to ENJOY standup as a practice?
31. Stand-up in open-space
34. Stand-up near physical card wall
36. Stick to stand-up start time
38. Stick to stand-up duration
40. Token is the license to speak
42. Consensual update template
43. The 3 Questions What I did yesterday? What obstacles I faced yesterday? What I intend to do today?
44. The Template Yesterday I played Login using Facebook story I had some trouble in integration which I’ll discuss in dev-huddle Today, I intend to continue playing the same story
45. Party-meter
48. Confession time…  Images were shamelessly stolen from the locations below:  http://www.allyhunt.com/cms/updates/10-common-errors-in- conducting-interviews  http://goldenpath.hubpages.com/hub/publicspeakingskills  http://www.infobarrel.com/Communication_Skills_in_the_Workplace  http://earthministry.blogspot.in/2012/09/environmental-stewardship-as- great.html  http://buburuza.net/2011/11/maturity-vs-immaturity/  http://bringthewaves.blogspot.in/2010/11/what-goes-on-in-my- head.html  http://martinfowler.com/articles/itsNotJustStandingUp.html  http://cmegroupideaexchange.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/building-an- agile-work-environment-part-deux/  http://www.elearnerengaged.com/begin-an-agile-project/  http://blogs.atlassian.com/2011/12/making-bonfire-part-ii/  http://www.incnav.com/site/6-ways-to-run-better-meetings/
49. Thank You! Karthik Sirasanagandla Agile Coach Industrial Logic : kartzontech : kartzontech.blogspot.com : agile-highway.posterous.com : karthiks