If I was a in charge of a business I would put a hard email filter (including externally) on corporate jargon because it is too vague and people just use it to seem smarter than they really are. The no-reply would give a lengthy explanation on why it’s bad practice.
Hmm, I wonder how often it would generate a false positive and force someone to reword something innocuous. My guess is that it would be relatively rare.
Dope. Put garbage language where it belongs.
Counterpoint: If you’re working from home it might be the only people contact you get for days.
Supposedly talking to people and touching grass is healthy.
My fear of working full-remote. I mean I got enough friends, but still that’s significant less social time, when not being in something like a coworking space… Although other benefits are really tempting (like 2 to 3 times the salary)
Wait, you earn more to not commute?
I mean I can just take a job in the states, they pay quite a bit more there compared to Europe, and it can be even more targeted in the area of my interest (low-level stuff in Rust which pays even better than what I can find here)… Locally the jobs are pretty limited (at least those that interest me)… Everyone wants Java/C# or JS devs here (all languages I’ll try to avoid, and I suspect it has to do with maintaining old (tech-debt) code-bases which I try to avoid even more)… But I’m quite happy with my team currently and just have rant about JS everyday, but at least don’t have to maintain tech-debt (at least not something that I haven’t produced myself^^)… And I get great food for free… Hmm trade-offs.
Hmm, are they finally hiring internationally? Americans are historically funny about that.
I mean at least the jobs that interest me often are also (full) remote, but I’m mostly interested in start-ups, they seem to be more open with it (and the job descriptions sound more interesting). I think Covid did its job there, unlike it seems for big tech?
Hm. Might not be standup that’s the problem. Might be a company culture thing. But only you know that for sure. Good luck op! Disassociation can be a life saver.
This post is creating company culture by its promotion of ditching coworkers and seeking validation through memes. Disassociation is the problem!
Yeah but then I’m up and sitting there like “oh shit, what the hell did I do yesterday?”
Stand ups (as originally described) shouldn’t be about what you already did, but what you are going to be working on and if there is a need to collaborate.
Most people got the concept wrong and turned them into mini status meetings.
Yepp, and no one really listens to the others, just trying to remember what you did and make sure no one dumps more work on you.
True. I’ve worked in pretty small teams with usually 2-4 devs paired, so it kind of worked out as both what we got through, what’s next priority, and how we plan to split out that day. Especially if we were light on stories.
Thanks
Didn’t see what community I was in when I read the post and thought there were just a lot of people here who hate stand up comedians doing crowd work
I thought it was referring to “standup meetings,” which is what we called weekly meetings with the commander in the military.
Everyone stands for the commander when he enters a room, then each person presenting needs to be standing while briefing the commander.
It’s military protocol for a high-ranking officer, although the cool officers would tell everyone to buck protocol, remain seated, and just give them the bullet points so we can get back to work.
I hate crowd work. Getting called on while on a night out is my worst nightmare
The worst thing about standups is that about once a month I catch a problem early because of what someone says. The tradeoff doesn’t feel worth it time-wise. But it keeps me from skipping them.
You could also see it as you preventing someone else from learning from their own mistakes. Maybe reframing it like that could help with skipping :)
If this actually rings true, there’s something pretty wrong in your team.
Stand up should be a quick and uncontroversial meeting talking about what you’ve done, what you’ll do and anything you need help with, plus maybe a couple of minutes of small talk before you start.
You mean you’re not actually supposed to spend 2 hours daily unfucking everyone’s shit during the standup turn by turn?
We waste the two hours doing code reviews that only three people actually need to be present for, I always appreciate the chance to zone out and do something else for a big part of the day. Follow that with lunch and I’ve just done half a day’s work by watching TV
My team does this for the first ~15 minutes and then we move to “group think” for any tough problems or “water cooler chat” for the remaining 15. You’re allowed to leave if it’s just water cooler chat, so I really like it
That sounds about 25 mins longer than i’m willing to call a standup.
if it’s not wrapped up within 10 mins of the scheduled start time something has gone horribly wrong
Yeah but I’m retarded and don’t want my team to know I’ve been struggling to make a proper AWS SQS topic policy for the past three days
Real. Or in my case I’m depressed and fucked up and just haven’t found the motivation to even open my IDE…
Problem is in practice, I suspect something is pretty wrong in most teams.
Some common examples come to my mind: -Management hears “talk about what you’ve done and what you will do” so great time to sit in and take notes for performance review, and it becomes a “make sure management knows you spent all your time and did really impressive stuff” meeting. Also throws a kink in “things I need help with” as there’s always the risk that management decides you aren’t self sufficient enough if they hear you got stuck, so you also need to defend why you got stuck and how it isn’t your fault. -The people who feel like everyone needs to know the minutia of their trials and tribulations including all the intermediate dead ends they went down on the way to their final result. Related to the above, but there are people who think to do this even without the need to impress management. -The people who cannot stand to “take it offline” and will stop everything to fully work a problem while everyone is still ostensibly supposed to stay in the meeting despite having nothing to do with the two people talking (sometimes even just one, a guy starts talking to himself as he tries to do something live). -Groups that are organized but have very little common ground. An “everything must be scrum” company sticks a guy who does stuff like shipping and receiving into a development team and there’s no ‘scrum-like’ interaction to be had and yet, there he is wasting his time and having to talk about stuff no one else on that meeting has a need to hear either.
In a standup comedy act whenever I get on my feet (optional).
Dont really have a choice in not attending that event.I called in sick today so I could skip all the meetings lol
If your stand-up is that stressful and takes less than 30 seconds to minute per speaker, you need to find a better job.
Unless thus is about stand-up comedy. In that case, you’re 100% right.
I’m happy when it just takes that amount of time, because everything else is just a waste of time…
The stand-ups at my job have turned into sit downs
The whole reason you’re supposed to be standing up is to keep them short…
*more than 30 seconds to a minute?
Correct, edited my post, thanks
Lol our standup+parking lot is scheduled for an hour. Kill me.
It took me a year but I broke my team of this habit. The trick was to remind them that the parking lot shouldn’t be scheduled. The whole point is that you continue conversations organically so that it’s more like the beginning of a working session instead of the end of a meeting.
I’ve fought this battle so many times.
My most recent battle was being told to implement Scrum and agile practices. When the subject of standup NOT being a status update came up, and I forcibly told people to keep their updates brief, it was changed to a “Sync Meeting” that lasted over an hour. Apparently, despite delivering stuff faster, being able to track velocity and ensure we’re not overextending ourselves each “sprint”, and actually knowing what we’re delivering through actionable tasks - we’re not doing agile any more…
My dumb ass: " Wtf how often do you have to go to comedy stand ups for it to be self care NOT to go. SMH."
Once, if it’s Ricky Gervais
If I ever was in a room with him, I’d ask if he thinks there’s ever a situation where a comedian should have priorities beyond getting a laugh. He seems to operate on the assumption it’s a no, and I want to hear him openly say that, or else have the opportunity to call him out.
My boss doesn’t do meetings. Every once in a while he approves my vacation request and I get notified it’s approved. Sounds better than it is, but it is better than pointless daily meetings. Adult daycare crap.
My boss is usually doing WFM and HR duties instead of her own, so no meetings for me either! So far I have a perfect performance record!
My new boss just cancelled all of our daily standup meetings that were introduced by the previous management. Reason given: “I have seen nothing valuable here during the last two weeks.”
I like him.
I get every week or so, but every day is just way too much. I’m a big kid, that’s what you hired me for, let me work.
Also then there are Jour Fixes and standups for the side projects you got rented out too and and and
Jour Fixe
I don’t think they use that term in English. And even more surprising, they don’t even use it in French. It’s a French loanword that somehow only exists in German.
It absolutely gets used in English speaking companies. I’ve got one in my work calendar as a reoccurring event.
Just to be sure, who created the invite? A German native speaker by chance?
The first page of results when I deliberately google in English “what is a Jour Fixe” are the following:
- Blog entry in English written by someone from a Liechtensteiner Organisation
- Blog entry in English written about the German usage of the Term
- English Wiktionary entry
- German Wikipedia article
- Blog entry in English written by someone from a German Organisation
- Translation website treating it as a German term
- Blog entry in English written by someone from Austria
- Translation website treating it as a German term
- Blog entry in German
- Blog entry in German
Some of that may be personalized to me as a Swiss user of course. But it seems a bit much to be a coincidence. Maybe it is a loan word making its way from German into English now.
I speak a little bit of German, but no, the guy who created the series is a native English speaker with Afrikaans as his second language.
I’ve lived in the US for about half a century and have never heard this.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I love these linguistic quirks.
I like stand-up. It’s probably the only time of the day I see my coworkers. Also we don’t do status reports or anything so maybe I’m just lucky ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My first and third job had daily standup, my second and fourth job don’t have daily standup. I’m on my fourth job. I love not having standup.
The purpose of stand up is to not listen to anything and say a sentence that no one listens to. It’s like a Buddhist meditation.
Yeah - it’s an art to find the perfect mix between “sounds complicated enough that they zone out”, “sounds like stuff gets done” and “not making people ask if you need help with that”.
lol I hope your standups are not actually like this! The purpose is to, as a team, plan how to achieve a goal
Err… Is your team doing planning during standup? I’ve never heard of that, from either people who are on teams that use standups, or from any of the Agile/Scrum literature that I’ve seen. In my experience, standups are typically about either a) coordinating the execution of work that has already been committed to, or b) whoops just a status meeting and everybody’s tuned out.
Ah, I see how my wording was confusing. I mean planning in the sense of “How will we complete the work that we already committed to?” and “What will we do today to achieve our Sprint goal?”
I arrived at the word planning because Scrum is sometimes described as a planning-planning-feedback-feedback cycle. You plan the Sprint, you plan daily (Daily Scrums), you get feedback on your work (Sprint Review), and you get feedback on your process (Sprint Retrospective).
I’m not actually a programmer (/engineer) I’m just a hobbyist. I work in supply chain, have worked at 4 companies in 8 years - all had stand ups, all of them are like this.
Lemmy keeps it real.
