I have been watching a team recently who are spinning up a new project. Of course, they must have a daily stand-up meeting, even though they are in 4 time-zones and client demands often mean leading team members cannot attend. The rhythm of development on their project means that some days there is almost nothing to report, but on other days the issues raised are too complex to cover effectively in the 15-minute time slot . But still they must have a daily stand-up meeting: it’s a ritual.
This is very insightful Donald. Continuously improving the organizational culture by continuously evaluating the rituals, or ceremonies as we once said in the Agile world, is the only way to achieve transformation and relevance within the organizational infrastructure. Back in 2007, I was brought into a company to work with their chief architect, also a consultant — though he was from Thoughtworks. My goals were two-fold: add data architecture to the application architecture and rethink the Agile approach to include employees and partners from the East and West Coasts of the USA, New Zealand and India. We used an internal blog, wiki and video recordings to allow the stand-ups and gaming aspects to happen asynchronously. What you define here would have helped immensely.
This is very insightful Donald. Continuously improving the organizational culture by continuously evaluating the rituals, or ceremonies as we once said in the Agile world, is the only way to achieve transformation and relevance within the organizational infrastructure. Back in 2007, I was brought into a company to work with their chief architect, also a consultant — though he was from Thoughtworks. My goals were two-fold: add data architecture to the application architecture and rethink the Agile approach to include employees and partners from the East and West Coasts of the USA, New Zealand and India. We used an internal blog, wiki and video recordings to allow the stand-ups and gaming aspects to happen asynchronously. What you define here would have helped immensely.