If the team is all working together on one feature at a time, I think the daily Scrum stand-up is invaluable.
The point of the daily Scrum stand-up is for the team, as a team, to complete the feature before moving on to the next feature. So it helps communicate with each other where things are at. What needs more attention, who needs help, what tasks are being added due to discovered work, et cetera.
But that is moot if the team isn't working as a team.
If the members of the team are all working on different features concurrently, I think the daily Scrum stand-up is a waste of time.
In which case the team is really working as a bunch of separate Scrum teams where each team has only 1 team member. And the daily Scrum stand-up becomes a status report, about where all the other "1 member Scrum teams" are at, which is of no value or interest to every other "1 member Scrum team". But may be of interest to the Product Owner and/or Project Manager, keeping tabs on how things are progressing on the many different feature projects happening concurrently.
Such status reports can be done more quickly and effectively in email.
Yep, I totally agree with that. As a developer, I wouldn't want to work with a team that doesn't do stand ups.
I applaud anybody who experiments with their process, tries different approaches and doesn't do something only because everybody else is doing it. But then I get sad when they write articles titled you don't need x meeting and make their point with a paragraph like this:
Standup has always bothered me. It usually serves to interrupt developers, make them feel pressured to prioritize features over tech debt, and has been known to last longer than 1/2 hour.
Many people think that having a meeting is as easy as opening your calendar tool, writing a title, adding a few people and sending out the invite. If the meetings are not properly planned, structured and facilitated, and the participants don't understand what is the agenda, the purpose and the expected outcome of a meeting, it is most likely going to be a waste of time. But the problem is not that you're having the meeting, the problem is that the way you do the meeting sucks.
Stand ups are not going to work out of the box if nobody around knows how to actually run a good stand up, but once you figure them out, they are really helpful. I've joined many teams with awful stand ups. None wanted to ditch stand ups after we added some structure and started asking the right questions, and many of them agreed that they were possibly the most helpful part of their process.
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If the team is all working together on one feature at a time, I think the daily Scrum stand-up is invaluable.
The point of the daily Scrum stand-up is for the team, as a team, to complete the feature before moving on to the next feature. So it helps communicate with each other where things are at. What needs more attention, who needs help, what tasks are being added due to discovered work, et cetera.
But that is moot if the team isn't working as a team.
If the members of the team are all working on different features concurrently, I think the daily Scrum stand-up is a waste of time.
In which case the team is really working as a bunch of separate Scrum teams where each team has only 1 team member. And the daily Scrum stand-up becomes a status report, about where all the other "1 member Scrum teams" are at, which is of no value or interest to every other "1 member Scrum team". But may be of interest to the Product Owner and/or Project Manager, keeping tabs on how things are progressing on the many different feature projects happening concurrently.
Such status reports can be done more quickly and effectively in email.
Yep, I totally agree with that. As a developer, I wouldn't want to work with a team that doesn't do stand ups.
I applaud anybody who experiments with their process, tries different approaches and doesn't do something only because everybody else is doing it. But then I get sad when they write articles titled you don't need x meeting and make their point with a paragraph like this:
Many people think that having a meeting is as easy as opening your calendar tool, writing a title, adding a few people and sending out the invite. If the meetings are not properly planned, structured and facilitated, and the participants don't understand what is the agenda, the purpose and the expected outcome of a meeting, it is most likely going to be a waste of time. But the problem is not that you're having the meeting, the problem is that the way you do the meeting sucks.
Stand ups are not going to work out of the box if nobody around knows how to actually run a good stand up, but once you figure them out, they are really helpful. I've joined many teams with awful stand ups. None wanted to ditch stand ups after we added some structure and started asking the right questions, and many of them agreed that they were possibly the most helpful part of their process.