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A comment on Ask HN: Does anyone else have anxiety during standup?.

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else have anxiety during standup? by virtueman on Thursday February 02, 2023 @12:17PM (#34629776)
This is the point of standup. Give the worker anxiety and pressure him to do more work. During my years and years of standup, I never learned anything useful and I doubt anyone else did either.

The good news is that management generally doesn't understand the low level details, so you can project confidence while using technical jargon to make them think you are far more productive than is the reality. It's really just a performance.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else have anxiety during standup? by misterflibble on Thursday February 02, 2023 @08:06PM (#34635771)
I can't vote this high enough, this is exactly my thinking
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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else have anxiety during standup? by knewter on Saturday February 04, 2023 @08:41PM (#34660709)
About ever other standuo one of us will ask to sidebar after with someone to help them with an issue they brought up. If people pay attention and focus on pragmatism it can be incredibly effective. We do three per week
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