For you perhaps but for the scrum master it helps identify whether the sprint is on track and whether there are any new discoveries/realities identified during the previous days work that might impact the Sprint's goals.

This is fundamental to the emperical nature of scrum: there is no improvement without inspection.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Especially when they're called "standups" but everybody sits down because they typically last an hour or so.

[–] bignose@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yet another way that the good ideas from Agile got crushed to meaninglessness by Business Idiocy.

The whole point of the “stand up meeting” is, by forcing everyone to stand together, to encourage everyone to keep it brief and to the point, so it benefits everyone without sucking their time.

[–] bignose@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Of course, that works only when everyone's in the same room. I don't have a good replacement for teams that connect remotely.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We have a NeatBoard that's configured for Zoom. So our stand ups are in front of this TV thing and it works well for us.

Then again, our stand ups are short and to the point. We're closer to kanban than scrum.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I did have actual stand ups once, after coming back from China and all I could think of was "shit I hope they don't make us sing the corp's anthem at the end!" like they do over there...

[–] Mikrochip@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

Wait, do they seriously have corporate anthems in China? I thought that only happened in the sprawl trilogy o.O

[–] jade52@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Please explain this corporate anthem further....

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Kind of like what they do at Walmart?