[mrbrowning]

> The whole exercise felt like taking attendance.

In my experience, almost anyone who insists on synchronous, in-person standups is doing so because they want them to function this way, whether consciously or unconsciously.

I also suspect that standups with no active brevity constraint frequently come about not because of a lack of leadership but because they're actually a means for disordered thinkers to feel productive, which I think goes part of the way towards explaining why you see such irrational attachment to standups even among ICs.

[pieterhg]

What is an IC?

[jiofih]

Individual Contributor. Manager euphemism for a cog in the machine.

[MockObject]

What is the alternative to being an Individual Contributor? An...individual non-contributor? Or a non-individual contributor?

[jiofih]

Management and leadership roles.

[MockObject]

And they aren't said to contribute? Odd terminology.

[baroomba]

SV-speak for labor, really, as in "the interests of capital/management and labor are, at times, opposed".

[redis_mlc]

I think it was originally a Microsoft acronym.

But, yeah, IC = prole.

[dasKrokodil]

Never heard this before, reminds me of Idiocracy's 'Particular Individuals'

[mrbrowning]

Sibling commenters got it. Sorry for the jargon, I've clearly been here too long!