Stand-up meeting practice
We are doing daily stand-up meetings in our team. This is one of the agile practices that has been setup (we are doing also test-first and time-boxing). These agile practices have been introduced progressively as the company decided to go on this path.
The initial goal was to improve internal communication inside the team on the project. I’m not satisfied with the result regarding our goal. Of course, every one is a little bit more aware of what’s going on in the project, but the organization of the team impact strongly the results. The team is in fact a composition of silos, and the daily stand-up is just an enumeration of information on really different areas. Finally there are very few cases where appears some shared information (I mean, information that is useful to more than only one guy).
In a certain extend, it does not provide the feeling that we are all on the same project. At least, folks have a rough view of who is doing what…which is not bad.
Today, Jeremy D. Miller have written a post that exprerss exactly my feeling:
A team building a feature is far better than a group of individuals doing tasks