On: You don’t need standups

[lttlrck]

Are stand up meetings the correct venue for brainstorming?

[maccam94 → lttlrck]

No, but they can spur an interested subset of people to brainstorm after the standup ends.

[chomp → lttlrck]

Maybe not, but if your peer said "hey can someone help me with this task" in a standup, wouldn't you want to help them once the meeting is over?

[kelnos → chomp]

Replace that with asking for help in slack or whatever, and you don't need a standup. And you also get help as soon as people's time is available, not the next day.

[Scarblac → kelnos]

But then you'd need people to listen to some slack channel, and be distracted continuously throughout the day. That's worse.

[voltagex_ → kelnos]

I've found that asking for help over text or the phone is less effective than asking in person.

[bitwize → lttlrck]

No, those are things you want to take "offline" or "to the parking lot".