> Each member is not a silo, but a cog in a highly functioning machine (you're much more than that; I'm terrible with analogies) that needs to work cohesively with the rest of the machine to function successfully.
"A company--"
"Is like an enormous clock."
"--is like an enormous cl--yes, precisely!"
I'm a bit tired of this idea that because we work with other people we should be in a near-constant state of "collaboration" with others. (See also: the most common excuse for cubicles wuth waist-height walls instead of actual fucking offices.) Sometimes cranking out a piece of code requires nothing more than focus and sitzfleisch. One function of the stand up is to provide a Schelling point for team members to synchronize their models of what's getting done, after which they can go back to their distraction-free deep hack mode to actually do it.
Monkeyfighting snakes on a Monday-to-Friday plane ain't got nothing on autocorrect censorship: "pain in the arose", "what the duck?", "you're gonna see some serious shot".
"A company--"
"Is like an enormous clock."
"--is like an enormous cl--yes, precisely!"
I'm a bit tired of this idea that because we work with other people we should be in a near-constant state of "collaboration" with others. (See also: the most common excuse for cubicles wuth waist-height walls instead of actual fucking offices.) Sometimes cranking out a piece of code requires nothing more than focus and sitzfleisch. One function of the stand up is to provide a Schelling point for team members to synchronize their models of what's getting done, after which they can go back to their distraction-free deep hack mode to actually do it.