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		purpleidea on Nov 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Are daily standups hurting your team? Daily standups is a form of evil micromanagement for competent devs and a bad substitute for good mentorship that junior devs need. Ban this horrible practice and start trusting your employees more.

TheJoYo on Nov 3, 2021 [–]

What does good daily mentorship look like?

I ask because I tried to set up daily checkins with my junior dev if only to make myself available to them.

What do I do when they just go radio silent for a week?

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