This one is going to wander a bit, just a warning. Ok, You’ve been warned. So one of the things about being in exile out here in the middle of the Atlantic is that I’m getting a chance to catch up on my DotNetRocks listening. Right now I’m about 15 months behind (That would be October 2004ish) and just got done listening to show 86 with Juval Lowy. (As a side note, its interesting to notice that so far, I don’t think there is a single show that should be marked “obsolete” ......
I consider Nick Malik to be a both a friend and a mentor, and he's got a great blog talking about work flow, agile programming, project managment and SOA. Today, he was talking about “Chickens and Pigs“ and said this about the agile practice of daily standup status meetings. These meetings are designed to be short, and agile methods like Scrum suggest that you ask everyone to remain standing during the meeting. Fifteen minutes should be a reasonable meeting length. I thought, “this ......