Yes, and - there is also something about the visceral feeling you get when your turn comes up in standup and you didn’t update any tasks and you don’t know the status of the thing you promised for this week.
If the PM does the task list and then chases the engineers 1:1, it’s a different chimpanzee brain mechanism at play. Very easy to forget/ignore you are letting down a whole team in this mode.
(And the flip side is true too, shared victory is more motivating.)
This is exactly why I do it (as a PM). The average engineer gets way more of the important work done when they have to say what they did and when, if they're blocked, they know I'll actually help unblock them.
And when the standup itself is five minutes, people are still refreshed enough to talk about a book or tv show or show off the progress they're making building a deck or let their kid say hi.
> there is also something about the visceral feeling you get when your turn comes up in standup and you didn’t update any tasks and you don’t know the status of the thing you promised for this week.
Never really experienced this. But daily are boring when it goes past the act of sharing updates and into musings by the PM, design discussions with a few of the team while the rest idle…