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rgrmrts ◴[] No.41848167[source]
This is a neat idea (and good looking product), but unfortunately the issue is the people who tend to interrupt you in the office ignore all explicit signals in my experience. Wearing noise cancelling headphones is an accepted sign of “in the flow, pls don’t interrupt” yet some folks feel like it doesn’t apply to them. Or they’d just stand next to your desk waiting for your attention. I’m pretty jaded (and probably still recovering from burnout) but these types of people made work unbearable. Usually an executive walking up to ask for the status of something even though there are other ways they can look at the status of something (JIRA, standup, slack updates).
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1. VyseofArcadia ◴[] No.41849016[source]
There is a special place in hell for PMs who can't wait for daily standup to get your status update.

There is an even more special place in hell for PMs who schedule an additional regular status update meeting.

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2. simonask ◴[] No.41849218[source]
Wait, I thought PMs were explicitly not allowed in standups, and that standups are explicitly not status meetings.
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3. throwaway83yqr ◴[] No.41849292[source]
And poker planning is just a tool that is used internally in the team to fill in the sprint, and not promises to sales
4. VyseofArcadia ◴[] No.41849358[source]
You should tell my PM and manager this.

Also, what else are standups even for? Everything I've read or seen IRL is some bullshit about using them for teams to "align" or "sync up" or "share progress" or nine other euphemisms for status updates. Let's call a spade a spade.

5. ghotli ◴[] No.41849611[source]
Oh. Sounds like you're referring to Agile and Standup with capital letters. In my experience people talk about agile-with-a-capital-A and standup-with-a-capital-S and those two don't really match what actually happens in the real world, at least in my experience.
6. nine_k ◴[] No.41853891[source]
Standups nearly always involve reporting status. At MPOW they involve short discussions on what may be blocking and who / what could help.