The Daily StandupEpisode 7 — "Yesterday, Today, and Blockers"
9:00 AM — the invite
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Daily standup starting now. Please join.
9:01 AM
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I was in the middle of something.
9:02 AM — the team
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Six people. One camera. Seven muted mics.
9:03 AM — "What did you do yesterday?"
Merged the PR we discussed on Thursday—
Which Thursday?
...Last Thursday.
We had two PRs on Thursday.
The auth one.
Oh. I thought that was still in review.
9:04 AM
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It merged six days ago. I told you in Slack.
9:06 AM — "What are you doing today?"
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Working on the ticket. Should be done EOD.
9:06 AM — the PM
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Can we get that by 2?
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EOD means end of day.
I said EOD.
I said EOD.
9:08 AM — "Any blockers?"
Yeah actually — I need credentials for the staging DB.
Oh that's — yeah, DevOps handles that, ping @
I pinged them Thursday.
Which Thursday?
9:08 AM — meanwhile
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I had this blocker for eight days. I mentioned it at five standups. It will be added to the backlog and scheduled for "next sprint." We are already in the next sprint.
9:11 AM — the sync
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Can we take this offline?
9:11 AM
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We ARE offline. This IS the standup.
The standup is the offline.
The standup is the offline.
9:12 AM
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"Okay, same time tomorrow. Good standup everyone."
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all left at 9:12:44
all left at 9:12:44
— end of episode 7 —
the blocker was resolved 11 days later
the blocker was resolved 11 days later