<story><title>Ditching Scrum for Kanban - The best decision we’ve made as a team</title><url>https://medium.com/cto-school/ditching-scrum-for-kanban-the-best-decision-we-ve-made-as-a-team-cd1167014a6f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>&amp;gt; The rituals, mainly the standups and grooming sessions, were fantastic. Standups are a great way to keep everyone aligned on the work.&lt;p&gt;Can anyone elaborate why they find standups useful? The planning board should already communicate what&amp;#x27;s being done, what&amp;#x27;s been done and why people are blocked. I only find them helpful if some people in the team generally don&amp;#x27;t communicate well what they&amp;#x27;re up to (e.g. during daily work, over lunch). Otherwise I find most people zone out during the standup and it just interrupts work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>You get a quick status update of all the bits everyone is working on.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Oh, Bob finished the xyz bit? Great I&amp;#x27;ll get started on abc now.
  Jim&amp;#x27;s stuck with the autobuzzulator? I&amp;#x27;ve used those before, I&amp;#x27;ll jump in and give him a hand after the standup.
  Katie&amp;#x27;s not been able to deliver the turnip functionality? Still can&amp;#x27;t test the beets either then...
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
It should take no more than a few seconds per person and I find it far more effective than any agile status tool I&amp;#x27;ve used, be that a physical board or an online system.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;  I only find them helpful if some people in the team generally don&amp;#x27;t communicate well what they&amp;#x27;re up to (e.g. during daily work, over lunch).&lt;p&gt;I communicate well with people I&amp;#x27;m working with in the microcosm of what I&amp;#x27;m doing &lt;i&gt;right now&lt;/i&gt;, but there may be a few other people on the team doing related tasks that I&amp;#x27;m not talking to every day.&lt;p&gt;And lunchtime is my time to get a few minutes away from screens and work, take a walk, have some food etc.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ditching Scrum for Kanban - The best decision we’ve made as a team</title><url>https://medium.com/cto-school/ditching-scrum-for-kanban-the-best-decision-we-ve-made-as-a-team-cd1167014a6f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>&amp;gt; The rituals, mainly the standups and grooming sessions, were fantastic. Standups are a great way to keep everyone aligned on the work.&lt;p&gt;Can anyone elaborate why they find standups useful? The planning board should already communicate what&amp;#x27;s being done, what&amp;#x27;s been done and why people are blocked. I only find them helpful if some people in the team generally don&amp;#x27;t communicate well what they&amp;#x27;re up to (e.g. during daily work, over lunch). Otherwise I find most people zone out during the standup and it just interrupts work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickmay</author><text>You need to tighten up your standups.  Each person should be saying what they did yesterday, what they&amp;#x27;re going to do today, and identify any dependencies or blockers.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s important for everyone on the team to know what others are doing in order to share knowledge.  If people are zoning out, you&amp;#x27;re not getting that benefit.</text></comment>