Episode 516: Not a baby and my product manager doesn't know the product
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Dave and Jamison discuss the challenges of daily standups in a scrum environment and the importance of effective communication within engineering teams.
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: My company follows scrum, with daily standups. We got a new scrum master. He is very formal and procedural and I struggle with our daily meetings. He goes through a long list of assigned tickets, asking each ticket owner about status and info on progress. We are all engineers with many years of experience but it feels like we are in the kindergarten. We don’t have deep expertise about each others work. It is important to know what each of us is doing more or less, but going deep in these issues makes me disconnect, and I think these meetings are above all very good to signal blocking points and ask for help. A recitation of tickets and work being done is not their purpose. On top of that, most days it takes 25-30 mins to go through all the issues. Am I being difficult complaining about this? I tried to be polite when I raised the issue but I was told more or less that this way is better for the company. Is it common in the industry to go through dailys like this? Thanks a lot, guys, you do great work and I look forward to the SW/industry podcast that makes me laugh the most! Hi! Long-time listener here, I remember Jamison…
More episodes of Soft Skills Engineering
- Episode 515: My junior team member won't listen to me and will I be the dumbest employee at a quantum computer company?
- Episode 514: Trust issues and underperformers and my coworker resents me for being faster
- Episode 513: Forgotten employee and what skills actually matter in the AI world
- Episode 512: Can non-engineers really contribute code with AI and not sharing
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