khedoros1 2 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".

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ctkhn 2 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 2 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 2 days ago

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