I find the daily morning scrum meeting a major "zone killer". It's completely orthogonal to how I function that I often spend a major part of the day just recovering from it.
I arrive in the office ready to roll, motivated, head full of ideas that have matured during the night, breakfast and commute. I can litterally arrive, sit down and crank out code (or whatever task is on). And then it's daily morning scrum meeting, and even that 5 or 10 minutes (when done right, a thing I've never seen with my own eyes) totally kills this mental state. 99% of the time my task is self-sufficient enough that what other team members do is completely irrelevant to me and I rarely have any insight to give them either. And I don't remember nor even care what I did yesterday, it's done, forgotten, check the SVN commit logs if you want to know about it. So I zone out, then the meeting is over and I've half-forgotten what I was doing so it's time to look at the latest meme on reddit.
I'd gladly settle for a daily _evening_ scrum meeting:
- What did you do today?
- What bothered you?
- What will you do tomorrow?
put that in the back of my mind and go home, I'm sure I'll have sorted things during the night to be useful tomorrow.
I arrive in the office ready to roll, motivated, head full of ideas that have matured during the night, breakfast and commute. I can litterally arrive, sit down and crank out code (or whatever task is on). And then it's daily morning scrum meeting, and even that 5 or 10 minutes (when done right, a thing I've never seen with my own eyes) totally kills this mental state. 99% of the time my task is self-sufficient enough that what other team members do is completely irrelevant to me and I rarely have any insight to give them either. And I don't remember nor even care what I did yesterday, it's done, forgotten, check the SVN commit logs if you want to know about it. So I zone out, then the meeting is over and I've half-forgotten what I was doing so it's time to look at the latest meme on reddit.
I'd gladly settle for a daily _evening_ scrum meeting: - What did you do today? - What bothered you? - What will you do tomorrow? put that in the back of my mind and go home, I'm sure I'll have sorted things during the night to be useful tomorrow.