Standup Alice Blog

Every team has two versions of the same Monday morning standup. The boss's version starts with a familiar question: did anyone actually do the thing we talked about last week? The employee's version starts with a slightly different one: do I really have to say, out loud, in front of six people, that I am still working on the thing I said I was working on yesterday? Same meeting. Two completely different headaches. And somehow, everyone still shows up. The Boss's Side: "Did An

Here is a fun fact that is not very fun at all: the average employee spends around 31 hours every month in unproductive meetings. That is almost a full work week. Gone. Every single month. And the wild part? Most people know their meetings are not working. They can feel it. They just do not know what to do instead. The good news is that fixing your meeting habits does not mean canceling everything and hoping for the best. It means understanding which meetings are actually doi

Some meetings exist for one reason: because nobody wanted to type. You know the ones. Thirty minutes blocked off so someone can read bullet points aloud while everybody else quietly answers emails, updates Jira tickets, or wonders if they can survive on coffee and spite alone. The problem usually isn't communication. It's meeting overload. Agile teams move fast, but when every update becomes another scheduled call, productivity starts dying one calendar invite at a time. Agil