Workshops, coffee and snacks over useless daily meetings
Computers on standby don’t produce results. Useless daily meetings don’t either. Commits and pushes to source code actually produce concrete value.
In contrast, workshops, coffee, cake, and snacks create space for useful team conversations, while also contributing to increased energy. Secrets that were hidden come to light, leading to clarification of ideas.
The power of coffee (and the workshop)
After all, what produces more value: a fifteen-minute daily where everyone recites what they did yesterday, or an afternoon workshop with good coffee where the real problem is broken down? The answer is obvious — but they insist on scheduling dailies.
Daily meeting: the productivity black hole
Every daily is an obstacle where no one is writing code, fixing bugs, or thinking about architecture. The worst part: after the daily, we schedule another daily to align what was said in the first.
Snacks > Post-its
While the agile team spends fortunes on colorful post-its to fill a kanban board, the slow team invests in quality coffee, workshops, and snacks — which in the end generate more productivity than any sticky note.