According to the Stack Overflow’s Workplace Satisfaction Survey, 80% of professional programmers are unhappy. But the problem isn’t AI, and it’s not coding.
Many developers start off their day with a “stand-up” meeting, which is considered a standard part of an Agile development methodology.
Unfortunately, many companies do a pale cargo-cultish shadow of a stand-up, which wastes everyone’s time and saps the energy out of the team.
The problem with stand-ups as practiced by many companies is that people don’t actually know what the stand-up is for. They’re treated like a daily personal status report. If that’s what they were for, a message in a slack channel would be more than enough, and there wouldn’t be any reason for a stand-up.