Update on stand up

14 July 2015 Unknown 2 Comments

I just wanted to give an update about how our daily stand up meetings are going. If you don't remember this experiment my family and I are doing, you can read about our daily accountability here.

The jury is still out on this experiment. My kids really love the meeting. When I asked them if they wanted to keep doing them, the answer was a resounding yes. But there reasons for liking the meetings was something along the lines of "we like to talk about what we're doing" and "we like the clap at the end."

Seriously, they love clapping as a family at the end. It's just a single clap on the count of three, but they love it. And since I'm usually video chatting with them, my clap isn't timed well with their clap. They just roll on the floor laughing because I can't ever clap at the same time. Come on guys, it's not my fault :)

But the things we talk about are pretty rambling and there isn't really a clear direction to what they—or we—should say. I'm not sure if saying everything you plan to do today is valuable. I've tried to steer it toward us saying what we are creating for the day, but it usually turns in to a checklist for what they have to do that day.

And scheduling it is hard. Since I have so many meetings at work, it's been really hard to do it consistently. We usually do it 2 or 3 times a week at the most.

So, I'm not sure if it's helpful yet, but we're going to keep doing it, mainly because the kids love laughing at daddy I think.