Are Daily Stand-up Meetings Valuable? A Survey of Developers in Software Teams
@inproceedings{Stray2017AreDS, title={Are Daily Stand-up Meetings Valuable? A Survey of Developers in Software Teams}, author={Viktoria Gulliksen Stray and Nils Brede Moe and Gunnar R. Bergersen}, booktitle={XP}, year={2017} }
The daily stand-up meeting is a widely used practice. However, what is more uncertain is how valuable the practice is to team members. We invited professional developers of a programming forum to a survey and obtained 221 responses. Results show that the daily stand-up meeting was used by 87% of those who employ agile methods. We found that even though the respondents on average were neutral towards the practice, the majority were either positive or negative. Junior developers were most…
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