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(Why your daily stand-ups don’t work and how to fix them) Model: 5 heuristics you’re doing stand-ups wrong symptoms which indicate you’re doing your stand-ups in the wrong way, for the wrong reasons: Heuristic: Stand-ups take more than 15-minutes Heuristic: People talk about their work instead of talking about goals Heuristic: People stop showing up regularly Heuristic: People talk to their manager (or “scrum master”) instead of talking to their peers Heuristic: If the manager or “scrum master” can’t show up, the stand-up doesn’t happen Quote: the purpose of daily stand-ups the purpose of the Daily Scrum is to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the Sprint Backlog as necessary, adjusting the upcoming planned work....

(Book_ This Is Lean - Niklas Modig) TL;DR Lean means valuing flow efficiency over resource efficiency Choosing for lean operations is a strategic choice with pros and cons. Maybe also Lean means valuing continuous small improvements over one big improvement. That continuous improvement is aimed towards the (impossible) ideal of 100% flow efficiency AND 100% resource efficiency. But favors flow efficiency, so it will focus first and focus more on flow efficiency....

Quote: Walking skeleton definition A “walking skeleton” is an implementation of the thinnest possible slice of real functionality that we can automatically build, deploy, and test end-to-end. -- Alistair Cockburn (src: Book_ Growing Object Oriented Software, Guided By Tests - Steve Freeman & Nat Pryce) (origin: [Cockburn04]) keep the skeleton’s application functionality so simple that it’s obvious and uninteresting For example, for a database-backed web application, a skeleton would show a flat web page with fields from the database....