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Re:Daily standups should be async by mrkurt on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:21PM (#23195507)
Those sound like relatively useless statuses then. Getting people together doesn't increase inherently increase the usefulness of updates, although sometimes it helps by accident since people ask questions. When it works, it's just painting over bad management.
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Re:Daily standups should be async by _t0du on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:23PM (#23195526)
Daily standups are not a solution to people not caring about what their peers are doing, is my point. You can't make people care, even if you make them show up.
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Re:Daily standups should be async by mrkurt on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:27PM (#23195574)
Oh yes I agree. I would argue that "making standups async" is a good way of discovering management/team related issues.

What tends to happen instead of the no-true-scotsman fallacy. If standups aren't working (they probably aren't) you must not be doing standups properly.

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