Daily meeting

When you are asked each day what you have accomplished since the last meeting (which was the previous working day) it is almost impossible not to feel at least a little bit of pressure even when the intent of the meeting is not to put pressure.

When I used to work as developer on a Scrum team, myself and the other developers were no longer focusing on doing a good job but our main focus was to do something during the day so that we can report good progress the next day.

I think because of the daily meeting the software ended up being full of bugs and it took much longer to complete things even if we were reporting good progress at each meeting. It was a fake progress, we were just under pressure.

I remember that a few days before a release the software still had critical defects that were fixed by the lead developer somehow I think by bypassing the Scrum ceremonies and rules. Scrum and the daily meeting were the big impediment that the team had to struggle each day.

Honestly I have never heard any developer to love Scrum (Agile) and the daily meetings. Only the people who don't have to suffer because of these things love Agile and the daily meeting, especially the Managers as they can use it for evaluating their staff and the PMs as they can use it for reporting purposes.

Dear Luis I meant by the other meeting when you have an issue to discuss not every day the every day is just short review in a toolbox meeting.

There was a similar question not long ago. My opinion is that if daily stand-ups are creating pressure, then the team is missing the point of the meeting. Stand-ups are not daily status reports. Daily status reports are intended to create pressure. Stand-ups are team huddles.

The image of the daily status meeting is the officer standing before Darth Vader, trying to report enough good news that he doesn't get killed. (Darth Vader got results. If you're the person requiring daily stand-up meetings and denigrating low-performers, just accept that you're the villain.)

The image of the stand-up is an American Football team huddling before their next play, or a construction crew discussing their day before work begins. There is pressure, but it comes from the team's goals, not the meeting itself.

There was a similar question not long ago. My opinion is that if daily stand-ups are creating pressure, then the team is missing the point of the meeting. Stand-ups are not daily status reports. Daily status reports are intended to create pressure. Stand-ups are team huddles.

The image of the daily status meeting is the officer standing before Darth Vader, trying to report enough good news that he doesn't get killed. (Darth Vader got results. If you're the person requiring daily stand-up meetings and denigrating low-performers, just accept that you're the villain.)

The image of the stand-up is an American Football team huddling before their next play, or a construction crew discussing their day before work begins. There is pressure, but it comes from the team's goals, not the meeting itself.