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I have a sneaking suspicion the author’s next article will be something along the lines of “people who are worse engineers than me keep getting promoted, and it’s not fair”.

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100% - our daily stand-ups are a waste of time usually, but we have fantastic team camaraderie and I think us shooting the breeze for 5 minutes every day is a huge part of this.

If your stand-ups are a waste of time, consider making it less status-y and more collaborative. We lengthed ours a bit and encouraged more dialog rather than just focusing on the traditional 3 questions (what did you work on since last standup, what are you doing before next standup, and where are you blocked) and it's been much more productive.

Author here.

I'm flattered that you think there are worse engineers than me :)

Besides, I've already been promoted far beyond my equilibrium level of incompetence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

Just be careful not to do any inadvertent organizational damage from up there.

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