ctkhn 21 days ago

I've been in 90 minute standups, the 10 minute standup pedants would be my heroes.

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khedoros1 21 days ago

With my current team lead, 90-minute standups aren't common, but they've happened. 30 minutes is "short", and most take 45 minutes. The previous lead kept things to about 10-15 minutes. The new guy has apparently never in his life said "OK, let's discuss this after standup".

ctkhn 21 days ago

I get why people hate scrum/agile and random standards from above but this is the kind of guy that needs enforcement from his manager. Unfortunately I have never seen that happen and have had to just move on from teams where it gets poisoned like this.

delecti 21 days ago

Interject. When things are getting off topic (which is to say, as soon as one person interrupts another person's update with a question) just say "this might be better for post standup", or even just "post standup?" with a questioning inflection.

Most of the people who will mind are exactly the kind of person that you're trying to keep from wasting everyone's time.

pavel_lishin 21 days ago

Any and every team member should be empowered to do this.

ab71e5 21 days ago

Wow, was it actually 90 minutes of standing?

ctkhn 21 days ago

For me, yes. I was working remote from a surprisingly loud coffee shop so I had to pop out in the back alley. The rest of the team (even those in office) was all connecting on zoom so I doubt it.

rightbyte 21 days ago

Did anyone faint?

ctkhn 21 days ago

I think some of my swe friends might have when I told them about it later.