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> The whole exercise felt like taking attendance. In my experience, almost anyone who insists on synchronous, in-person standups is doing so because they want
by mrbrowning 7y ago
> The whole exercise felt like taking attendance.
In my experience, almost anyone who insists on synchronous, in-person standups is doing so because they want them to function this way, whether consciously or unconsciously.
I also suspect that standups with no active brevity constraint frequently come about not because of a lack of leadership but because they're actually a means for disordered thinkers to feel productive, which I think goes part of the way towards explaining why you see such irrational attachment to standups even among ICs.
- pieterhg 7y agoWhat is an IC?
- jiofih 7y agoIndividual Contributor. Manager euphemism for a cog in the machine.
- baroomba 7y agoSV-speak for labor, really, as in "the interests of capital/management and labor are, at times, opposed".
- redis_mlc 7y agoI think it was originally a Microsoft acronym. But, yeah, IC = prole.
- dasKrokodil 7y agoNever heard this before, reminds me of Idiocracy's 'Particular Individuals'
- MockObject 7y agoWhat is the alternative to being an Individual Contributor? An...individual non-contributor? Or a non-individual contributor?
- jiofih 7y agoManagement and leadership roles.
- MockObject 7y agoAnd they aren't said to contribute? Odd terminology.
- mrbrowning 7y agoSibling commenters got it. Sorry for the jargon, I've clearly been here too long!