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Re:Ask HN: How to manage developers who aren't very good? by jacquesm on Friday February 06, 2015 @11:35AM (#9009762)
The daily standup: it will make a really bad team perform a little better and it will make a really good team go to pieces.
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Re:Ask HN: How to manage developers who aren't very good? by sukilot on Friday February 06, 2015 @11:54AM (#9009882)
If the team is doing really well, no one will suggest a standup.
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Re:Ask HN: How to manage developers who aren't very good? by RogerL on Friday February 06, 2015 @01:54PM (#9010792)
Are you hiring?

This sort of stuff tends to get imposed from above, or by busybodies enraptured with ideas and theory as opposed to practicality. I'm endlessly told how nothing but agile works, despite the fact that I'm 48, and successfully lead dozens of projects before agile was an idea, on time and on budget.

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Re:Ask HN: How to manage developers who aren't very good? by collyw on Monday February 09, 2015 @09:27AM (#9021252)
This is exactly what I have though. I code the same way as I have for years. (I am more organized and disciplined, but that is down to experience, and nothing to do with the way I work being labeled "agile").

If I was to take a list of aglie practices, I maybe end up ticking half of them. Same things I did when waterfall was all the rage.

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Re:Ask HN: How to manage developers who aren't very good? by jacquesm on Friday February 06, 2015 @02:13PM (#9010926)
How I wish you were right.
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