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#204 - Stop Inflicting Daily Standups and Computer Science Riddles on Your Devs - David Guttman

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Rethinking Daily Stand-Ups

This chapter critiques the effectiveness of daily stand-up meetings in engineering teams, highlighting their potential drawbacks in productivity and communication. It proposes alternative collaboration methods tailored to team dynamics, emphasizing the importance of accountability and asynchronous reporting. The discussion extends to hiring practices, advocating for realistic evaluation methods over traditional metrics, prioritizing team efficiency over the search for '10x developers.'

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