How to Host a Successful Stand-Up Meeting

Rod Sherwin Solutioneer, Model Thinking

@RodSherwinhttps://au.linkedin.com/in/rodsherwin

Quick Update 1 mins in total

What did you do on the weekend?

What will you do at work tomorrow?

Quick Update - Debrief

What did you experience?

What did you learn?

How did it feel?

What is a stand-up meeting?

Daily team-meetings to make commitments to [fellow] team members. The daily commitments allows participants to know about potential challenges as well as to coordinate efforts to resolve difficult and/or time-consuming issues. Wikipedia

Agile Values?

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

http://agilemanifesto.org/

Agile Principles?

#2

#4

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#11

Why do stand-up meetings work?

Frequent face-to-face syncronisation of the team to the work and product direction

Why do stand-up meetings work?

Team self-organises to solve issues asking for and offering help

Kill the monster while its small

Why do stand-up meetings work?

Daily comms within, into, and out of the team

Trigger for before and after comms

Why do stand-up meetings work?

Make progress visible motivation and momentum

Why do stand-up meetings work?

Team sharing and bonding

Slow down to go faster

If you want me to speak for two minutes you give me a notification of two weeks; if you want me to speak for five minutes, I should have a notification of one week, but if you want me to talk all day, here I am. Anonymous

Host Leadershipby Mark McGerow & Helen Baileywww.hostleadership.com

Who hosts your team?

Initiator

How did your self-organising team decide to have a daily stand-up?

Did everyone give consent?

Get things moving small steps

Inviter

Invite the team to participate

Anyone else with work on the wall

Everyone welcome to attend, listen and possibly contribute

Space Creator

Where are you having your stand-up?

Ok for the number of people?

Materials?

Creative, emergent, problem solving space?

Space Creator

Can the team customise their space?

Proximity to other teams?

Virtual space video screens, standing height

What messages is your space conveying?

Space Creator - Wall

Virtual teams duplicated wall or software wall

Is all work on the wall?

How easily can you adjust your wall?

Gatekeeper

What time?

Signals to start & end meeting. Other rituals?

On topic or take offline

Welcome and introduce visitors

Connector

Asking for help offering connections

Dependencies double-linking?

Personal updates

Co-Participant

Basic Stand-Up format

Scrum Format

Round robin

Answer 3 questions:What did I do yesterday?

What am I planning for today?

Any blockers?

Variations

What did I do or learn yesterday that is important or interesting to the team?

What am I going to do today, and whom do I need to collaborate with?

What's preventing me from working intelligently and efficiently towards the team's goals?

Ref: Rob Myers

Variations

What happended since the last meeting that you didn't expect?

Ref: Elise Keith, Lucid Meetings

Walking the Wall

Work across the wall from right to left e.g. New cards in Done

Cards in QA

Cards in Doing

New cards

Summary of Benefits

Next Steps

References

It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Standup Meetings Jason Yip

Consent based decision making Bernhard Bockelbrink and James Priest