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[rantanplan]

This can be alleviated by meeting once a week(if all members are in the same area) or once per couple of months(for more distributed teams).

I would be very wary of companies that can't perform because physical attendance is mandatory every single day!

[nobleach → rantanplan]

And perhaps I'm wrong by measuring our performance by "number of features completed" or "number of bugs fixed". I just don't know what other metric matters to use.

[lawnchair_larry → nobleach]

If you emphasize metrics, you'll get folks who optimize for the metrics, to the detriment of the project. They will frustrate your best engineers, who will eventually leave.