--- title: "Video: How to manage a person who is always late to a standup meeting" url: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-how-to-manage-a-person-who-is-always-late-to-a-standup.md" canonical: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-how-to-manage-a-person-who-is-always-late-to-a-standup.html" published: "2011-07-30T13:39:36+00:00" updated: "2011-07-30T13:45:29.817000+00:00" tags: ["First Steps during chaos", "From the mailing list", "Learning Phase", "Self-Leading Phase", "Video"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "A YouTube video answering how to handle a team member who is always late to the daily standup, with a different approach for each team maturity stage." usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Video: How to manage a person who is always late to a standup meeting I came across this common question on LinkedIn: [How do you manage a person who is always late to a standup meeting?](http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&srchtype=discussedNews&gid=52030&item=47774148&type=member&trk=eml-anet_dig-b_mc-ttl-cn) My thoughts on it are below, and the answer of course, depends on [the three stages of software team maturity](https://www.5whys.com/articles/the-3-maturity-stages-of-a-software-team-and-how-scrum-fails.html).  I also forgot to mention that in the chaos phase you need to discover whether the meeting time is an actual constraint for that person and might change it to fit. but the point is to not waste time in a team meeting when you're in chaos, but to make decisions fast enough so the team doesn't get left behind even more.  [![](https://www.5whys.com/img/video/youtube-oDluD9Ls19U.jpg)Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDluD9Ls19U) 5whys: How to manage a person who is always late to the meeting ## Read next - [The 3 maturity stages of a software team and how scrum fails to identify them](https://www.5whys.com/articles/the-3-maturity-stages-of-a-software-team-and-how-scrum-fails.html): The chaotic, mid-life and mature stages of a software team, the leadership each one needs, from dictator to coach, and why Scrum Masters miss them. - [What to do if some people in the team just don't want to take a task?](https://www.5whys.com/articles/what-to-do-if-some-people-in-the-team-just-dont-want-to-take.html): How a Scrum team leader should respond when team members won't pick tasks in sprint planning, with different tactics for each team maturity stage. - [Video: Ten Mistakes Software Team Leaders Make](https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-ten-mistakes-software-team-leaders-make.html): Video and slides of a SkillsMatter talk on ten mistakes software team leaders make, from ignoring team maturity to fear of delegation and placating. ## Topic - [Scrum Master](https://www.5whys.com/topics/scrum-master) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/