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by twic 2350 days ago
Making classic standups useful and comfortable definitely requires psychological safety. You need to feel like you can occasionally say "worked on X, didn't make any progress", and a manager or a rival isn't going to pounce on you for it.

If you don't have pervasive psychological safety, there's a lot of stuff from XP that isn't going to work.
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lbriner 2350 days ago
Exactly what I was about to say. There are many things that are dismissed in team culture because of the fear of feeling exposed or blamed but that is an issue of culture and/or insecurity, not a disadvantage of using agile methods.
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einpoklum 2350 days ago
This reminds of this scene:

https://youtu.be/OMDQzITWJyU?t=204

From "The Dictator", where Nuclear Nadal is reporting on his progress.

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