How to Kill a stand up -- @AgileHelen

Helen Snitkovsky@AgileHelen

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HOW TO KILL A STAND UP

The Stand up in a nutshell

WHAT? Yesterday – Today – BlockersRULES? Time, people, interruptions, committed

BENEFITS? Fewer meetings, more collaboration, transparency and trust

The Quest

All characters and other entities appearing in this presentation are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons or other real-life entities is purely coincidental.

Meet Tom.Tom is on a quest to establish the perfect stand up. He has to get through levels by neutralising impeders and removing obstacles.

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HOW TO PASS THIS LEVEL

Experiment with stand ups"We can always change it later"

Level 1: The Startup CHALLENGES Small close-knit team. Anxious yet overconfident.

“we always talk to each other”(about game of thrones and stuff)

Level 2: The Corporate Project

HOW TO PASS THIS LEVELCalm the customer downTransform the status personRemove the micromanager

CHALLENGES Multiple stakeholders. Big teams.Impeders: micromanager, anxious customer, status report person

Level 3: Loosely coupled team CHALLENGES Different goals. Large programs. Impeders: no common goal, longer feedback cycles

HOW TO PASS THIS LEVELFind common goalTransform the stand upKill off the stand up BONUS POINTS

Helen Snitkovsky@AgileHelen

questions? thanks.