The title is clickbait. I’ll admit that upfront. I’m not going to tell you to fire your standup. I’m going to tell you something more nuanced and therefore less shareable: your standup should change shape as your team grows up, and if it looks the same at month twelve as it did at month one, something has gone wrong.
I do daily standups with new teams. Every single day. And with my established, well-communicating teams, I’ve backed off to Tuesday and Thursday. Both of these are the right call. The trick is knowing when to shift from one to the other.
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