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Discussion on: What makes a successful standup?

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Fabian Holzer

My perfect standup would be the only second best alternative to a not needing a meeting at all.

The participants should strictly limited to the people who really work so closely together that they indeed need to stay synced. What I have witnessed is that it is more often all people who happen to report to the same manager. Often the contributions would be better part of an email, a wiki entry or a one-on-one conversation. The standup should be short and timeboxed (taking the "standup" part literally might help with that) and all discussions of solutions should be postponed to after the standup and to achieve that all participants need to be both prepared and disciplined. And knowledge transfer is in my opinion out of scope of a (daily) standup meeting.