Posts on the human side of shipping software — how teams actually make decisions, run rituals, and stay honest about what’s working. Not process theater. The rituals that carry real weight (and the ones that quietly stop).
Keeping the daily standup from becoming a status meeting
Some teams have quietly turned the daily standup into a status report — going around the room instead of walking the board, and asking for updates from people who aren’t touching a single story that sprint. Here’s what the Agile literature actually says a standup is for, and a few small structural fixes.