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June 12, 2020

Stand-Up 2.0: It’s time to ditch the daily from 1993

The daily stand-up is broken.

No wonder. It was invented almost 30 years ago and we're still running it the exact same way.

When daily stand-up meetings started in the early 90s, the software development process looked very different. Git didn't exist. Jira didn't exist. Collaboration tools didn't really exist. DevOps didn't exist. Automation tools didn't exist. Analytics tools didn't exist.

January 21, 2019

“Flow Thursdays” – A Day of Liberation With No Standing Meetings

In the course of all this scheduling turmoil, another amazing thing happened. We took a look at these meetings and asked the hard question: “Is this meeting really worth having?”

Last week I had the pleasure of my fourth “Flow Thursday” at Tasktop, a day where we have no standing meetings. I cannot tell you the joy that such a simple concept can bring.

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