Tom is on a quest to establish the perfect stand up meeting by passing through different levels and neutralizing impeders and obstacles. In Level 1 with a small startup team, the challenge is the team is too anxious and overconfident and just talks about non-work topics. In Level 2 with a corporate project, the challenges are multiple stakeholders, big teams, and impeders like a micromanager, anxious customer, and someone who just gives status reports. To pass this level, the customer needs calming, the status person needs transforming, and the micromanager needs removing. In Level 3 with a loosely coupled team across large programs, the challenges are different goals and long feedback cycles, and the impeders are lack of

1. How to Kill a stand up -- @AgileHelen

2. Helen Snitkovsky
@AgileHelen
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HOW TO KILL
A STAND UP

3. The Stand up in a nutshell
WHAT? Yesterday – Today – Blockers
RULES? Time, people, interruptions, committed
BENEFITS? Fewer meetings, more collaboration, transparency and trust

4. The Quest
All characters and other entities appearing in this presentation are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons or other real-life entities is purely coincidental.
Meet Tom.
Tom is on a quest to establish the perfect stand up. He has to get
through levels by neutralising impeders and removing obstacles.

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HOW TO PASS THIS LEVEL
Experiment with stand ups
"We can always change it later"
Level 1: The Startup
CHALLENGES Small close-knit team. Anxious yet overconfident.
“we always talk to each other”
(about game of thrones and stuff)

6. Level 2: The Corporate Project
HOW TO PASS THIS LEVEL
Calm the customer down
Transform the status person
Remove the micromanager
CHALLENGES Multiple stakeholders. Big teams.
Impeders: micromanager, anxious customer, status report person

7. Level 3: Loosely coupled team
CHALLENGES Different goals. Large programs.
Impeders: no common goal, longer feedback cycles
HOW TO PASS THIS LEVEL
Find common goal
Transform the stand up
Kill off the stand up BONUS POINTS

8. Helen Snitkovsky
@AgileHelen
questions?thanks.