Dear Trevor, Stephen, related stakeholders and stick holders:
We are seriously hating the long and tedious combined scrum. Here are the main reasons we think it sucks:
1. We are cold-hearted beings who don't really care to know what folks outside our immediate team are doing. 2. We are mildly traumatized by the pressure to keep our reports as humanly short as possible to avoid hateful stares from others. Sometimes we'd like to mention some details that would be relevant to our immediate team, but then we'd get those dreaded glares... 3. We try to keep our reports as generic as possible, and what we end up saying is a bland, watered-down version of reality that isn't helpful to our immediate team. 4. Every day we are faced with a moral dilemma: suffer quietly while pretending to listen or sneak out of the scrum room early and be forever branded as a selfish jerk. 5. Dude, it's just a drag.
We are requesting that you please kill the combined scrum and let us again have brief, focused, 10-minute team scrums.
The stand up takes forever and I honestly have no clue what the other groups are talking about half the time. Let us get back to work already.
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Sankar Bhogi
11 years ago
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Though the combined scrum takes much less than the individual scrums together and get to know what every one else is doing, they are longer from most individuals point of view compared to the previous format. Given an option, I would choose the old format over new.
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Gurbir Singh
11 years ago
+1
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yi
11 years ago
Julia is too funny. I have to sign this!
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Ben Zhang
11 years ago
1 or 2 days meeting once, small group, 10 mins is enough.
Dear Trevor, Stephen, related stakeholders and stick holders:
We are seriously hating the long and tedious combined scrum. Here are the main reasons we think it sucks:
1. We are cold-hearted beings who don't really care to know what folks outside our immediate team are doing. 2. We are mildly traumatized by the pressure to keep our reports as humanly short as possible to avoid hateful stares from others. Sometimes we'd like to mention some details that would be relevant to our immediate team, but then we'd get those dreaded glares... 3. We try to keep our reports as generic as possible, and what we end up saying is a bland, watered-down version of reality that isn't helpful to our immediate team. 4. Every day we are faced with a moral dilemma: suffer quietly while pretending to listen or sneak out of the scrum room early and be forever branded as a selfish jerk. 5. Dude, it's just a drag.
We are requesting that you please kill the combined scrum and let us again have brief, focused, 10-minute team scrums.
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Mike Hamilton
11 years ago
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The stand up takes forever and I honestly have no clue what the other groups are talking about half the time. Let us get back to work already.
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Sankar Bhogi
11 years ago
Featured
Though the combined scrum takes much less than the individual scrums together and get to know what every one else is doing, they are longer from most individuals point of view compared to the previous format. Given an option, I would choose the old format over new.
G
Gurbir Singh
11 years ago
+1
Y
yi
11 years ago
Julia is too funny. I have to sign this!
B
Ben Zhang
11 years ago
1 or 2 days meeting once, small group, 10 mins is enough.
The stand up takes forever and I honestly have no clue what the other groups are talking about half the time. Let us get back to work already.