Major caveat: they were never doing stand ups to begin with. From the screenshot, the feedback from the team was “standup are becoming very long, a lot of chatting and designing features” (paraphrased)
It sounds like they had a 45-60 minute daily meeting that was not a standup. Rather than cancel the meeting, shorten the meeting with a 15 minute hard stop.
I run a 10 person remote SaaS company. We have daily morning stand ups. The standup takes no more than 10-15 minutes, but it sometimes goes 20-25 minutes since we often chat for a few minutes before jumping in to standup. (I can’t imagine us doing feature design during that meeting, as they were in the article)
The chatting / socializing is something I encourage before standup starts. As a remote team, it’s necessary to have some group interactions to maintain the group’s working relationship.
It sounds like they had a 45-60 minute daily meeting that was not a standup. Rather than cancel the meeting, shorten the meeting with a 15 minute hard stop.
I run a 10 person remote SaaS company. We have daily morning stand ups. The standup takes no more than 10-15 minutes, but it sometimes goes 20-25 minutes since we often chat for a few minutes before jumping in to standup. (I can’t imagine us doing feature design during that meeting, as they were in the article)
The chatting / socializing is something I encourage before standup starts. As a remote team, it’s necessary to have some group interactions to maintain the group’s working relationship.