We cut out standup a few sprints ago. We replaced it with an automated post on our team’s channel, and we leave a comment in the thread with statements for “yesterday” “today” and “blockers”. Everyone on the team loves it.
To compensate for some of the social aspects, we now do a 30m “coffee chat” Monday morning, and a “engineering roundtable” on Fridays, which is a time to sync up around coding conventions and practices we would like to adopt or get rid of.
To compensate for some of the social aspects, we now do a 30m “coffee chat” Monday morning, and a “engineering roundtable” on Fridays, which is a time to sync up around coding conventions and practices we would like to adopt or get rid of.