[ido]

The problem is that a lot of developers (especially junior ones) make shitty decisions and/or just work slowly without the accountability of having to say what they worked on (and having to explain why what they said they will “finish today” 4 times already isn’t yet finished for the 5th time).

They are not necessarily bad developers, just need the need the external motivator.

If you have 10+ years of experience and you repeatedly make shitty decisions or keep drastically underestimating your work instead of introducing accountability via daily standups you can simply be fired.

[roeles]

I have seen this happen to junior developers.

In hindsight I think it is much more effective to pair them up with a senior developer instead of waiting for a pattern to become apparent during the daily scrum.

[ido]

Ideally yes, but it’s also not that easy to find senior developers and a lot of them don’t like having to hand-hold juniors.