1 hour daily standups and 30 minute planning meetings.
I’ve been on a team that consistently congratulated themselves on how fast and smooth planning is, when none of the stories would have acceptance criteria or real descriptions at the end of the meeting, and then we’d have to spend tons of extra time during daily standup actually figuring out wtf the work was
After a point in your career you either learn the skills and get the experience to understand how to plan projects and end up on those groups writing the definitions, or you remain an IC and just code what was given to you.
Worse than 1 hour standup and 4 hour planning:
1 hour daily standups and 30 minute planning meetings.
I’ve been on a team that consistently congratulated themselves on how fast and smooth planning is, when none of the stories would have acceptance criteria or real descriptions at the end of the meeting, and then we’d have to spend tons of extra time during daily standup actually figuring out wtf the work was
After a point in your career you either learn the skills and get the experience to understand how to plan projects and end up on those groups writing the definitions, or you remain an IC and just code what was given to you.