From the course: How to Fix Bad Agile
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Energize sleepy standups
- Pretty much every agile team shares the same ritual. Each morning everyone checks their email and fills up their coffee, then they get together for a daily standup meeting. But even though the timing of these meetings might be the same, the meeting itself is often different from one team to the next. Some teams see their scrum master as their project manager. So naturally they'll use this time to update the scrum master about the product status. That way the scrum master can do a better job managing the team. Other teams will breeze through this meeting the same way you might say good morning to someone in the elevator. Each person gives a very high level description of their work and then they'll punctuate the ending by saying something like no blocks. After a few weeks, this daily standup becomes just another mindless exercise, team members do it without even thinking, almost like validating their parking. But…
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