• pachrist@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Most standups are bad because they’re not used as a quick collaboration tool, they’re used as a demonstration to prove you’re working, and then the least productive people talk the most because they’re the most desperate to prove they’re working.

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      28 days ago

      Right along with story points.

      Not meant to be a measurement of time, but of effort. But everyone ends up using them as a measure of time because that is what the MBA at the end of the tables wants.

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        28 days ago

        My current company treats effort the same as time. I can appreciate that they’re at least honest about that lol