and possibly a moron. TC: 275k
Main purpose is so that it’s easier to catch people who are slacking vs not
Sigh…. Standups are not reporting mechanism. The manager has a minor or zero role at standups Standups are coordination mechanism. So the team can share what they are doing with each other and unblock each other. The manager role if any is simply as facilitator.
1. Manager sets the rules so he's ultimately responsible for creating/maintaining a daily standup culture. 2. Coordination is the responsibility of those involved in a project. You're going to waste 10 people's time going over some detail that's only relevant to 2 people? 3. Let's be honest, it devolves into a "I did all these things yesterday" meeting. Nobody cares about blockers.
“Manager sets the rules” simply not true for a lot of orgs wrt to agile, especially if you have full time scrum masters. There isn’t a thing I can do to prevent daily standups, nor can my boss or even the director of engineering. The agile org is a separate reporting chain and would throw a fit, and the ultimate outcome would being told from on high to do a daily scrum because that is the business procedure. Being a manager doesn’t mean you can just run the team however you like, ignoring organizational wide rules and procedures. Also yeah most stand ups regress into a waste of time, the bigger the stand up the worse it gets. Ideally it is a 5 minute meeting unless something of value is brought up. Blockers shouldn’t wait for stand up and whoever can unblock should be pinged when the block is discovered.
Daily standups are fine when the team is working on a compressed schedule for a one-off, high priority deliverable. Otherwise, it is a drag on everyone except the manager.
Don't be a fucking idiot. It's a business. If you can't take 15 minutes a day to coordinate and give a basic update, you're wrong. It's not even remotely close to micro management. The mere suggestion indicates your inexperience. That is not to say that daily stand-ups are always well done, but the premise is correct.
It sounds like you're in a toxic culture. Even at Tiktok we only do weekly team standups and biweekly XFN standups.
You are entirely missing the point. Just because that's what they do, doesn't make it right. The whole premise is that a single time in an entire day, you can take a couple minutes to coordinate with your peers and let your manager know what's going on. That is extremely far from micromanagement.
Healthy daily standup: Blockers from yesterday? What are you going to be having your fingers in today, and is there any conflicting work with the other team members? Unhealthy: List of everything you did yesterday to the nearest ten minute block. Give all of your planned work and time devoted to it for today. Are you busy enough?
A healthy team doesn't need to ask team members if they have blockers, team members should know to speak up and identify blockers themselves
Not all team members communicate well, especially in remote work. Some require a scheduled time like a daily 1 on 1 or standup
Program Manager is the micromanager
Daily standups are for the team. As a manager, I never attend any standups.
This is the worst because your team constantly lives in the fear that one day you will drop in and your random sampling of that day's status updates will form the basis of your opinion about every member on the team. 100% they hate your guts.
LOL Maybe you live in fear of your manager, but don't project that to others. Most companies don't work like Tik Tok. By the way, the people on the scrum team at my place report to different managers, neither of whom attend the standups. The agile rituals, like daily scrums, are mandated by the Program Management Office, so it's not up to any individual manager or director to change that.
The stand up is not for the manager. It gives you a chance to better communicate with your team.
I used to have two standups per day during my previous manager. One at 9:00 and one at 3:00pm
Bruh come on now, TC?