[adrianggg]

Great article, I like the bit about

"Many organizations misuse the daily standup in order to accomplish ulterior motives. A big one that comes to mind is having a ‘start time’ for the work day."

My thoughts exactly. This to me indicates poor management style and a control mechanism for insecure tech managers. It's been a great way for me to quickly avoid joining terrible teams that use weird metrics to measure performance.

Why is there so much resistance to common sense approach to knowledge sharing? I always feel much resistance from the force in the move away from 9am stand-up.

[eric_h]

At my last job, the 10:30am daily standup was very clearly intended to enforce the start time of the work day. Further, the company provided both lunch and dinner every day, and we were expected to be there for both, every day.

Needless to say, the founders of this company were previously finance guys (the startup itself had nothing to do with finance. honestly it didn't even really have a business plan other than raise VC money and improve vanity metrics to raise more VC money) and were very fond of the ass-in-chair metric of employee productivity.

I could write pages about all the things that were wrong with the culture at my last place of employment, but I won't. I do owe that job for actually plugging me into the network of startups and tech in NYC, so while it was a shitty 2 years, it was worth it (especially since I now know which companies and management styles to avoid).

I am very happy to have moved on from there to my current job, where the only metric that matters is the get-shit-done-whenever-wherever-however metric.

[initram]

Yeah, I don't know. I work on a team where there are 1 or 2 people who can't ever be gotten ahold of because they're never in the office during normal hours. Our stand-up starts at 11:50AM, and they can't get to it on time. We have some people who commute from far away and leave earlier than standard to avoid traffic and be able to spend time with family. There has to be some time where they can find each other and talk. What's the solution? IF we can't all be there for at least 1 hour a day, how can we reasonably interact? I'm all for flexible schedules, but "come in and leave whenever you like" doesn't work in reality. People sometimes need to interact live with each other, even if it's via chat.