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Planning Extreme Programming
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Planning Extreme Programming

by Kent Beck, Martin Fowler
October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
160 pages
2h 32m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 20. Stand-up Meetings

 

When a meeting gets boring, leave.

 
 --Robert Cecil "Uncle Bob" Martin
  • Have a short meeting once a day so everybody knows what's going on, and what's not.

You'll notice we aren't into lots of meetings. Meetings are at the top of most programmers' lists of boring time wasters. But meetings are also a way for people to communicate. The challenge is to figure out what kind of meetings work well.

We've found that short daily meetings are invaluable for giving everyone an idea of what other people are doing. However the emphasis is on short. If the daily meetings ever start dragging, you'll run into trouble.

The stand-up meeting gets its name from one of the tricks we use to keep it short: Everyone has to stand up for the ...

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