Standup Alice Blog

A daily standup is supposed to take fifteen minutes. Ask any developer how it actually feels, and you will hear a different story. Somehow a fifteen minute meeting can wreck an entire morning of coding. That feeling is not just in their heads. Scientists have studied it. The numbers explain a lot about why standups can feel so much bigger than the time on the clock. What a Meeting Really Does to a Developer's Brain When you are deep in code, you are holding a lot of things in

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