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Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by high_derivative on Thursday September 26, 2019 @04:56PM (#21085451)
I found the best response to standups in a prior job was to randomise a delay about ongoing work. Simply talk about what you did 2-5 days ago (depending on urgency of things). This obfuscates your exact productivity and takes away organisational power from micro-managing bosses.

Whenever a manager comes in or there is a meeting to check on your progress, you can slice of something from your buffer to present. For every problem you present (from few days) ago, you can already present the solution.

Or, in other words: Your productivity is some process that you don't want to be observed directly by your manager, because you will suffer negative consequences from them detecting the exact amplitudes. You simply apply non-stationary smoothing to it.

Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by amflare on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:51PM (#21085958)
How do you prevent commit timestamps or completed tickets from giving you away?
Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by rozap on Thursday September 26, 2019 @07:32PM (#21086798)
Lots of times, the folks micromanaging aren't the ones looking at git.
Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by PikachuEXE on Friday September 27, 2019 @05:17AM (#21089932)
I am so glad I am not in a company that does standup Coz I am the tech lead hahahahaha
Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by pertymcpert on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:44PM (#21085896)
Very clever.