How to stop lengthy daily meetings

We all been there. Daily stand-up should take half of an hour or an hour, while it starts to take more and more. Eventually, you are sitting there on the stand-up and trying to do your job, and listen at the same time. Stress raises, and every time you become more accustomed to the situation while being anxious at the same time. How to fix it?

There are many reasons why such situation can happen, and really sometimes time is needed to discuss some issues. However, if you read it, you have for sure noticed, it is not the case. Now, long daily stand-ups became a rule in your project, and you want to do something about it.

If this is true you are in the right place. Usually there would be various ways to solve such situation with external resources, so to say. But I will tell you what is the method I like to use, and you can use it too. As a junior, medium or senior developer. You don’t have to have a PM, scrum master or anyone else to do it. First, what is the situation?

The situation

Lengthy stand-ups mean everyone takes time to discuss important things. However, not everyone has to be part of every discussion. Sometimes, some people can code in the same time, while others have to participate.

By acting, you will increase productivity of the team, and also the product owner, because he will have to spend less time explaining stuff. If it does not happen now in your project, it means, there is a missing role of a person who controls the…