Standups Create Recommitment and Collaboration

If you are using some form of an iteration-based agile approach, where the team does not swarm or mob, you may find a standup useful. The purpose of a standup is to reveal the status of the team’s work—the work on the board. The standup does not solve problems—the standup surfaces problems. The standup helps the team members recommit to each other and realize the impediments they face.

If you want your standups to work, consider when you will conduct them and how to make them work for your team.

Remember that standups are for the team. Standups help the team learn what it has completed since the last standup, the status of the work in progress, and if anyone has discovered impediments that will ...

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