1.5 hour Scrum Meetings? Every Single Day?
“I actually put on a movie during a meeting. It was almost at the end credits when the meeting finally ended.”
As funny as this post sounds, the comment section is full of devs who share the same frustration.
This isn’t Scrum, though. It’s Scrum theater
Scrum says: 15-minute standup. That’s it.
But somewhere along the way, “standup” turned into:
- A manager’s monologue
- Info no one needs
- Side convo that could be had on Slack
- And zero structure
And you know what happens next?
People start zoning out. They stop speaking up. Context-switching gets worse. Burnout creeps in quietly
Not one person in the comments said, “I hate collaborating with my team.”
What they said was:
- “I don’t need to hear updates that don’t involve me.”
- “No one is guiding the meeting.”
- “We never shut things down once they go off track.”
So what’s the fix?
Structure. Discipline. Boundaries. Rally.
🟣Time-box to 15 mins. No exceptions.
🟣Answer 3 questions: What did you work on? What will you work on next? Any blockers?
This is not a hard rule, though, just some questions to help guide your input as a dev.
One action you can take right now to solve this is moving your standups async on Rally.
This way, everyone can give feedback on their own time, in one shared thread. Right in a space anyone can revisit at any time.
👀 Have you ever been in a never-ending standup?
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