What I struggle with is that any blockers or delays that I may have, I’ve already signaled in our team chat.

And the social pressure against saying “I didn’t do much” is tremendous, and it’s hard for anyone who cannot completely abandon worrying about what others may think of them to admit that, even if they have a reason to do so.

An actual progress report meeting 1-2 times a week is so much better.

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SoftTalker 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

If I have stuff I didn't finish yesterday, I will usually just say "continuing work on foo" and if there was a blocker that delayed me I will mention that otherwise I don't get into reasons why, that's not really the point of a standup unless someone else can do something about it.

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scott_w 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And that’s fine, just say so and who’s helping you unblock it and move on. The stand up is to make sure nothing gets missed because the conversation that needed to be had didn’t happen.

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hshdhdhj4444 5 days ago | parent [-]

How does the standup help ensure nothing is missed? Everything is raised actively by individuals. They could have done the same thing through async modes of communication.

Compare this to a weekly progress update meeting that will usually have your project tracker, or Kanban board, or whatever up there so you can actually identify things that may have dropped off everyone’s radars.

	▲	scott_w 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Everything is raised actively by individuals. They could have done the same thing through async modes of communication. Because this doesn’t happen in the real world. People forget to mention things, they get their heads stuck in rabbit holes. A task that’s blocked just withers and dies because nobody actively looks at it. A good standup forces these things to be raised and addressed. > Compare this to a weekly progress update meeting The progress meeting is daily, not weekly.