Quoting Dan North: people don't get blocked, work gets blocked

 Quoting Dan North on Patterns Of Effective Teams on standups (he calls them seize the day):

I think Ken Schwaber is being misunderstood [...], so these three questions what did you do yesterday, what are you doing today, and are you blocked? These are the three standard question, he using those sort of questions, it's kind of close, yeah. Unfortunately you're totally missing the point - I do apologize - the questions are these: what work items moved yesterday, what work items are likely to move today, what work items are blocked. People are never blocked, right? If in doubt context switch, if you are worried about which context to switch, have a meeting, you lonely at work? have more meetings. So... people don't get blocked, work gets blocked. [...] You don't measure the workers, you measure the work items, we're measuring the the flow of work through a system...