Huddle

The hidden power of the stand-up meeting

Your Stand-Up looks more like a "status meeting" than a "team huddle"? Learn more about this overly misused meeting and get some insights on how to spice it! This book is 50% finished. While I'm working on it, I give early versions for a discount price. Feel free to send me your feedback, it will be of great help.

Tristan Libersat

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Take a moment to think about the cost of a daily Stand-Up Meeting. 86% of Teams interrupting their work everyday for 15 minutes or so, not to mention the time after to get their thoughts back together before getting back to work… So why is this practice so badly implemented? Wouldn’t it merit more attention? In this book, we will explore the origins of the Stand-Up Meeting, the key concepts behind it (self-organization, decision-making, cross-functionality), the patterns that work (who should be involved, when and where should it take place, how to run it effectively), and the anti-patterns that don't. Reading this book will give you insights on how to perform Stand-Up Meetings that can improve drastically your team’s efficiency. Please note that this book aims to be framework-agnostic, i.e. we will talk a lot about agility but also explore other ways of getting things done. It is not in my intention to create a “methodology” for the Stand-Up Meeting. Instead, I would like to help Teams explore new options and new ways of thinking so they can experiment and find their own way of working.

This book is 50% finished. While I'm working on it, I give early versions for a discount price. Feel free to send me your feedback, it will be of great help.

Here is an overview of what you can find in this early version:

PART 1 - Enter the Stand-Up Meeting => 80%
PART 2 - Experiencing the Stand-Up Meeting => 80%
PART 3 - A few minutes to assess the health of the Team => 20%

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Tristan Libersat

Tristan Libersat is an Agile Delivery Leader and Coach at Capgemini, where he works with teams and organizations to optimize their flow of value delivery.

His journey into agility started in 2013 with an unexpected revelation. Attending a Certified Scrum Master training facilitated by Jeff Sutherland himself, Tristan discovered that 70% of the course focused on Lean principles—waste reduction, value stream mapping, theory of constraints, A3 thinking, and metrics. This foundation shaped his conviction that true agility isn’t about ceremonies; it’s about continuous flow and measurable outcomes.

Over the past decade at Capgemini in Toulouse, France, Tristan has trained and coached hundreds of professionals, helping them move beyond “doing agile” to actually being agile. As a professional coach specializing in agile roles, Tristan works one-on-one with Scrum Masters, RTEs, and DevOps Engineers to help them evolve their practice, expand their impact, and navigate organizational constraints.

Beyond individual coaching, he has managed the staffing and career development of Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, and DevOps Engineers—giving him unique insight into the challenges these professionals face in organizations. He’s observed firsthand the frustration of Scrum Masters stuck facilitating their 51st retrospective with the same problems resurfacing, which inspired him to write this book.

A regular contributor to Medium and the agile community, Tristan writes about the systemic challenges facing Scrum Masters, the gap between agile theory and practice, and practical approaches to organizational change. His articles on team self-organization and why agile frameworks keep people frustrated have resonated with thousands of practitioners worldwide.

Father of 2, he lives in Toulouse with a passion for Space and chess—a game that, as he writes, taught him more about transformation strategy than many agile frameworks. He continues his mission to help agile practitioners evolve from ceremony facilitators to true flow leaders.

Connect with Tristan on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/tlibersat or read his writing on Medium @tlibersat.

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