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By: Eli Weir

Eli Weir — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:43:46 +0000

Great post, Richard! I have often struggled with getting teams (especially those new to the agile paradigm) to have effective stand-ups. They often direct their “reports” at the PM/Scrum-master/Coach rather discuss with the team in general, and the stand-ups become a rote exercise, just something that gets done as part of the process. I’ll try this tweak and let you know how it goes …

P.S. Looking forward to how things progress in your new venture.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:25:45 +0000

I see that pattern, too. The more senior you are, the more likely you are to have work outside of one team’s sprint goals, therefore the greater need to justify your lack of direct contribution to DONE. On the team I wrote this post about, I didn’t change the language because of the interns…

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:45:48 +0000

Good tip. I’m going to bring this up with our Scrum master, Schmidt. The application developers are usually pretty on point, but our architect and DBAs often rattle off several items that were worked on but not completed in a given day. And the DBAs always have distractions to report that they feel justifies their lack of work completed for the Sprint goals.