5 minute stand up meetings

We started having our 5 minute stand up meetings (Extreme Programming) this week.  Wow was this painful and awkward at first. 

We had our 4th in a row today and got it done in 7 minutes!  First one took 15.  Let me say, these work.  Our communication on the project has increased dramatically.

 

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  • We just started doing this at my company as well. It's definitely helped. Our first meeting ended up taking a 1/2 hour, though. Now we're down to about 10 minutes.

  • The standup meetings originated with Scrum as the daily 15-minute stand-up meeting.



    Why only 5 minutes? Is the team small? On a previous project we got 10 people to report in an average of 15 minutes.

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