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How do you make your standups effective

I was curious the techniques that people have done to make the standups more effective.  I have seen doing standups everyday some people are not as engaged as they should be.  Any thoughts out there to help make them effective everyday?

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Permalink Reply by D. André Dhondt on September 10, 2011 at 9:14pm

Change the format, regularly. Avoid status updates--use a story wall or a big visible version of your electronic tracking system (projected on the wall, or on a large monitor) to communicate status instead.  Then focus on what decisions need to be made as a group.

Change the questions--try one of the following:

  • are we on target to finish this iteration on time?
  • what's important?
  • anyone want a second opinion on something they're working on?

There's a lot more... what do you think of these ideas so far?

Permalink Reply by Jay Kalbach on September 12, 2011 at 10:22am

I really like the idea of changing the questions to keep people thinking. 

  The status updates thing does seem to happen organically.  While a status on what they did is important, I am more interested in are they on target and what help they need from the team.

 

Keep the ideas coming.  Thanks

Permalink Reply by D. André Dhondt on September 12, 2011 at 1:28pm

Ravi and I have a few slides on this topic that we could use for the "Intro to Agile" section of the upcoming event--Wed the 14th at Devry--are you going to be there?

Just as a teaser, our slides point out how a stand-up needs to be about connection--once people's attention starts to wander, there's a problem.  We also have worked with teams that use multiple stand-ups a day, since they can be great at reminding us to stop & look around at the team as well as the big picture.

Permalink Reply by Ravindar Gujral on September 15, 2011 at 2:43pm
Yeah, Jay let us know. Andre is probably going to share slides with you :)
Permalink Reply by John Voris, Lead Coordinator on September 20, 2011 at 11:42am

And Martin Fowler posted this about Stand-ups just last month

http://martinfowler.com/articles/itsNotJustStandingUp.html

I like the idea of the Improvement Board, but I could see where that would be a Futures-Wishlist is not policed and acted upon.

 

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