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Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by kelnos on Thursday September 26, 2019 @10:35PM (#21087908)
I mean, c'mon. We're not children. We're professional developers. If anyone I worked with waited even a day to raise a blocker on an urgent task, I'd think much less of their abilities.
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Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by ansible on Thursday September 26, 2019 @10:52PM (#21087988)
I don't disagree.

But sometimes you have to do what you have to do to keep the organization moving forward.

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Re:Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accompl... by kelnos on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @04:36AM (#21134418)
It's another trade off, though: do you annoy your developers for what I believe is just a slight increase in velocity?

While I do know some developers who like (or at least get enough value from to tolerate) standup, I know many more who find them an annoying waste of time. For teams that do standup first thing in the morning, it even makes them want to go to work less. How's that for starting the day on the wrong foot?

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