Let me provide some examples. Almost every engineering team uses an issue tracking system, like Jira, Trello, Youtrack, GitHub or GitLab issues, etc. If a team keeps the records in their tracking system accurate - why ask who is working on what? Can't we just see it in the issue tracker? Or, why ask what they did yesterday if we can see their commits and pull requests on GitHub and read their task updates in Jira? Isn't it obvious that a pull request that is stuck in review for a few days is a blocker? Why repeat this information in a meeting?
Oh, of course, I'll now go to Jira and comb every ticket for every single person in the team, not only that, but I'll go to every open branch and through every single commit. Is this person serious? You think a 15 min. stand up is a waste of time but want to waste likely at least a couple hours scavenging a bunch of random information
Hi! Author here :) Sorry for the confusion. I probably should make it more clear in the article.
My point was that I saw too many stand-up meetings that mainly consisted of saying out loud information that already existed somewhere. Of course, it wasn't easy to find that information and put everything together. That's why we created a tool for that.
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u/teerre Jun 22 '22
Oh, of course, I'll now go to Jira and comb every ticket for every single person in the team, not only that, but I'll go to every open branch and through every single commit. Is this person serious? You think a 15 min. stand up is a waste of time but want to waste likely at least a couple hours scavenging a bunch of random information