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Re:You don’t need standups by speby on Thursday August 02, 2018 @08:29PM (#17676545)
"still workin' on those bugs" is really pretty useless. I'm not suggesting you're not a disciplined person but at some point, debugging something for days on end is a sign you may need some help, a fresh set of eyes, or come up for air and re-group. Same goes for feature development. If a single user story representing a whole feature (or part of a larger one) goes on and on and on, that's either a sign you perhaps rabbit-holed it too deeply, need some help from another team member, or need to raise a flag and split the story into another piece, possibly even one someone else can rally around to help close it.
Re:You don’t need standups by somethingsimple on Thursday August 02, 2018 @11:19PM (#17677085)
I wish everything was so simple.

At a past job a very technically strong coworker spent months on a problem and eventually threw the towel and handed it to me. It took me another couple months to find a reasonable solution to it.

Some problems are _really_ hard and no amount of help will get a dev to solve it faster.

Re:You don’t need standups by djsumdog on Friday August 03, 2018 @02:09AM (#17677599)
But if I hire nine women, I can get a baby in a month right?