On: The daily stand-up is an anti-pattern

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"Self-starter" is one of many good qualities for a developer. Here are some others off the top of my head:

  * Creative
  * Detail-oriented
  * Outside-the-box-thinker
  * Insightful
  * Meticulous

.. and so on. I've found that with any such list, people will already excel in some, and still be growing in the others. Oftentimes these attributes are contrary to each other -- your most creative developer is probably not your most detail-oriented developer, for instance.

If you restrict your hires to all excel in a single attribute, such as "self-starter", you may be missing out on some fantastic developers who excel in other things.

In short, some of your developers may very well find daily accountability to be helpful, and this doesn't necessarily mean they aren't fantastic developers in other ways.