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by virtueman 1227 days ago
This is the point of standup. Give the worker anxiety and pressure him to do more work. During my years and years of standup, I never learned anything useful and I doubt anyone else did either.

The good news is that management generally doesn't understand the low level details, so you can project confidence while using technical jargon to make them think you are far more productive than is the reality. It's really just a performance.

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I can't vote this high enough, this is exactly my thinking
About ever other standuo one of us will ask to sidebar after with someone to help them with an issue they brought up. If people pay attention and focus on pragmatism it can be incredibly effective. We do three per week