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Originally Posted by blackize5
Huh? It's literally a bunch of people getting together to talk about a specific topic.
It seems to only differ from any other meeting by being extremely short and to the point
This is obviously my subjective experience, but when I hear the word "meeting" I immediately think of moving away from my workstation to a different room where we sit down and talk about a topic for at least half an hour, usually more, and then after the meeting people often walk together to the coffee machine and continue talking.
A standup is more like when someone walks up to your table and asks you about a work related topic, you have a 5-10 min chat about it and then he leaves. It's an order of magnitude less disruptive to your workflow.
Ideally standups should happen in the team room and have almost no windup/winddown. It's 9:30, everybody stands up from their desk, forms a circle, takes turns to say: "Yesterday I did a, today I'm going to do b." and then sits down. If you need to move to another room, I think the concept falls apart.
Last edited by Wolfram; 05-05-2018 at 06:58 AM.