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A gut instinct is an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion based on facts. If you're paying attention, you'll know if things got worse or better. Defi
by sillysaurus3 10y ago
A gut instinct is an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion based on facts.
If you're paying attention, you'll know if things got worse or better.
Define "worse." In fact, define "better."
These are not qualities that can be measured until the company is either doing better or doing worse. And then you still have to figure out if the company is doing worse solely because of no standup meetings. Hence my original argument.
I'm not saying it's worthless to do that. I'm saying at least admit that it's not evidence-based science.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoYou can tell (even measure) how much of the time people are waiting for stuff from other people. That's the main thing standups are supposed to fix. Now, you can still have confounding factors, because the project didn't stand still. You could have everybody waiting on a big deliverable from another team, for instance, in which case everybody's blocked, but the lack of standups has nothing to do with it. So you have to think about the results some, rather than just blindly accepting them. Still, it's better than just gut instinct, because it actually is an opinion based on facts.