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Because I wake up 5 minutes before this meeting and my mental energy is spend on making coffee.

• tejisant01 5y ago
  This is THE comment. Completely related
• rendall 5y ago
  >> What's going on that people don't know what task they have been working on? > Because I wake up 5 minutes before this meeting and my mental energy is spend on making coffee. Funny. I was asking about the format of the dailies, though. "How did the 'endpoint creation' task go, yesterday, KptMarchewa? Did you complete it?" is a question even a coffee-deprived sleep-addled dev can mumble an answer to.
  • pcthrowaway 5y ago
    I wouldn't put it past myself to forget an endpoint I implemented yesterday, that's why I document them as soon as I finish.
    • rendall 5y ago
      Hmm. I guess I'm trying to suggest that the format of the daily stand up, or even something about the development pipeline in these situations, are leading people to forget what they are doing day-to-day. If I were on a team where people were forgetting regularly, I'd tune the process. I find explanations like "I haven't prepared" or "There is something inherent to me" not to be satisfying. As a lead, I'd find it quite alarming, really. I mean, some people have medical conditions, and that's fine as an explanation, but as a routine? No. Something isn't going well. And, the explanation is almost certainly not "devs are at fault". Burnout is a possibility.