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That is beautifully said, thank you! Thinking differently is progress and definitively what we need. I also agree with you with your statements. I used those w

• nsonha 5y ago
  > they demoralise developers and make them want to change jobs I kind of get what you mean but not because you made a good point. People are demoralised because they are lazy/unmotivated and cannot perform, once they slack off, they cannot communicate out of shame. So even though it seems that they fear the status update, the culprit is the fact that they are not motivated at work or have poor work ethic. In oder to fix this, sometimes getting a new job where you do what they like works. Another comment mentioned things like geekbot which is text-based async stand up, you might want to try that. The key thing here is recording progress so that people can coordinate, it has nothing to do with you reporting to the manager.