Meetings

I don’t have some revolutionary new take on daily standups or anything like that. This isn’t some grand reworking of any part of the agile manifesto. It’s another rant. Eventually, if you’re a developer, you will have to take part of a daily standup call, where everyone has to give an update on the previous day and state what they plan to do during the day. I understand why this is a valuable meeting in the ideal case: everyone on the team gets updated on what everyone else did and is doing without having to repeat themselves....

This is not going to be anything revolutionary, but I have observed this about myself and what works for me. If I have 30 minutes or so between meetings, very little programming work is going to get done in that amount of time. By programming work, I mean the kind of deep work that you get done when you’re in flow state and you aren’t staring at the blank cursor. It ususally seems like it takes 10-15 minutes to get into that state....