Re:Launch HN: Spinach.io (YC W22) – Better daily standups
by DocTomoe on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:49AM
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> wow, you are a great performer.
No, you aren't. You just either suck at estimation, or you deliberately underestimate to shine brighter in the eyes of your slavemaster. And if the rest of your team also "overperforms" consistently, there's a conspiracy, which means I will stop making you commit on stuff and will just ram more tasks down your collective throats, abandoning another aspect of the agile way of work.
See how easily such an abuse of standups can be turned around to make the very same person look bad? If that is possible, is the approach a good one?
> most dev teams don't give a whit about Agile and just do stand-ups to keep the PMs and SMEs appraised of progress
This is mostly related to PMs and SMEs pushing a perverted interpretation of Agile.
No, you aren't. You just either suck at estimation, or you deliberately underestimate to shine brighter in the eyes of your slavemaster. And if the rest of your team also "overperforms" consistently, there's a conspiracy, which means I will stop making you commit on stuff and will just ram more tasks down your collective throats, abandoning another aspect of the agile way of work.
See how easily such an abuse of standups can be turned around to make the very same person look bad? If that is possible, is the approach a good one?
> most dev teams don't give a whit about Agile and just do stand-ups to keep the PMs and SMEs appraised of progress
This is mostly related to PMs and SMEs pushing a perverted interpretation of Agile.