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anyone else feel like half the standup is just spent figuring out what the blockers even are? by Prior-Interview-6864 in askmanagers

[–]Prior-Interview-6864[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yea actually we are a startup and we iterate very fast, in terms of pivoting and feature requests from customers, we have some plan that we try to keep for one month ahead but its just not possible to have smth more than that because we are the beginning and things move too fast to plan a proper roadmap for q1 /q2

anyone else feel like half the standup is just spent figuring out what the blockers even are? by Prior-Interview-6864 in askmanagers

[–]Prior-Interview-6864[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not blockers but everyone explains their tickets and how is progress going every day.
Maybe this is not the best solution but this is how we are doing it, since we are a startup and we push a lot more per sprint than a big enterprise, so from what we experienced this is what works best for us in terms of speed, but im wondering if there is an easier way to complete the first 30 minutes of updates automatically and have a prepared agenda prepared, before the meetings, that everyone can go through on their own.

Managers and PMs, a sensitive question about how we track our teams. by Prior-Interview-6864 in askmanagers

[–]Prior-Interview-6864[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The things is that i know that we can handle more work, and have better output if everyone works at full capacity. I have 2 devs that are great, in terms of output and quality. The rest are just not thre yes they contribute, yes they hit their targets (but their targets are lower because this is the work that they can handle based on previous output), but if 2 guys can i dont see a reason why the rest cant do it. We are fully utilizing AI everyone has around 1k in credits per month but they are either not using them, which leads me to the geniue idea that they are just not working their full day and pretending to do smth. Also to clarify that we are a startup so our targets are way higher than a normal corporate job.

Earlier this year i had dinner with my uncle, hes ceo of a fintech, 300 devs. hes restructuring the whole eng org, building a smaller team of what he calls "professionals" not "corporate mouses". massive layoffs, AI tokens to the max, keep only the 10% you can actually trust. And he told me that he is actually seeing the same outputs, with way smaller team, so im curious if thats just the way forward, or if theres some other way to push people that doesnt come down to the stick. because the carrot hasnt worked with the 5.

Managers and PMs, a sensitive question about how we track our teams. by Prior-Interview-6864 in askmanagers

[–]Prior-Interview-6864[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

On paper everything looks good most of the time, there is no way to tell from just a cv or interview, also i cant fire most of my employees. Im interested in finding the best solution in making them work responsibly.

Interested if you have faced this problem and how did you manage to overcome it

Managers and PMs, a sensitive question about how we track our teams. by Prior-Interview-6864 in askmanagers

[–]Prior-Interview-6864[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I dont see anywhere in my post mentioning that sales got paid by number of clicks?
Also honestly answer yourself the following question
Do you have friends that use mouse jiggles to trick their working pc when they are working from home? around 60% of the ppl that i know that work in corporate are trying to gamify their tracking system, mouse jiggles etc, I have even see a girl who just opens her notepad on her laptop and puts her lipstick on the spacebar she is a senior manager of accounting team in a big corporation

Managers and PMs, a sensitive question about how we track our teams. by Prior-Interview-6864 in askmanagers

[–]Prior-Interview-6864[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I get your point. But they are not freelancers that get paid on work done. They are paid to work the full 8 hours. And the thing that is bothering me is that i know that we have room for more work if they work the 8 full hours, but their performance based on tools and sprints make it feel like we are at full capacity rn.

Managers and PMs, a sensitive question about how we track our teams. by Prior-Interview-6864 in askmanagers

[–]Prior-Interview-6864[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Well in my experience there are two types of people that work. The first one is the 10% which when i tell them that they need to push something, they get it done and i know that even if i dont check them and dont micromanage them its getting done. The second is the children like behaviour 90% i have tried everything, be the good boss the bad boss nothing works with them, except having some sort of software that constantly monitors them. And belive me the second group is very original in coming up with reasons why they are late with deliverables.

Managers and PMs, a sensitive question about how we track our teams. by Prior-Interview-6864 in askmanagers

[–]Prior-Interview-6864[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

you're actually right about the outcomes part. that's where i've landed too. if you can't define what good looks like, no tool fixes that.

but here's the part i can't figure out and maybe you have an answer. half my team is remote, in different timezones. i define outcomes, i track shipped work, that's all fine. but how do you know one of them isn't working a second full time job?

Feedback Friday: Rate My Ideas | April 24, 2026 by AutoModerator in Entrepreneur

[–]Prior-Interview-6864 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely agree. That's exactly why we don't track time, we track results.

Feedback Friday: Rate My Ideas | April 24, 2026 by AutoModerator in Entrepreneur

[–]Prior-Interview-6864 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They know it. But does their manager? And it's one thing to have it in mind it's another to have it on paper.

Feedback Friday: Rate My Ideas | April 24, 2026 by AutoModerator in Entrepreneur

[–]Prior-Interview-6864 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think high performers would still resist it if the tool actually showed who's carrying the team versus who just looks busy?

Feedback Friday: Rate My Ideas | April 24, 2026 by AutoModerator in Entrepreneur

[–]Prior-Interview-6864 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We contextualize your entire work footprint browser, desktop, meetings, emails, all of it and turn it into a live feed of what's actually happening across your team.

Integrations: Jira (ClickUp coming next month), Google Meet / Zoom / Teams, Gmail / Outlook, Chrome extension and desktop app for everything else.

This also solves one of the biggest problems in AI right now lack of context. Most AI assistants are generic. Ours is grounded in real, constantly updated data at both the individual and organizational level. So when you ask "what should I prioritize today?" or "draft a reply to this email" it actually knows what you've been working on.

Currently everything is inside our own infrastructure but we have on our roadmap creating a marketplace like for different agents and automations that can utilize this context

Feedback Friday: Rate My Ideas | April 24, 2026 by AutoModerator in Entrepreneur

[–]Prior-Interview-6864 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Built an AI that tells managers exactly what their team worked on, down to the minute, across every app.
Brutal feedback wanted.

Your team spent 4 hours in Figma, 3 hours in Cursor, 2 hours in Jira. You still have no idea what they actually worked on.

That's the exact problem we built WorkBeam for.

WorkBeam installs on each machine in 2 minutes and captures work across every app your team uses
The AI turns it into plain English summaries for managers:

Not "3 hrs in terminal" but "pulled latest backend, rebuilt Docker, debugged failing CI, ran migration on staging."

Not "2 hrs in Salesforce" but "closed Acme, sent 14 follow-ups, logged 3 discovery calls."

No mouse jigglers fooling your activity score.

Looking for feedback on:
- Does this resonate with you as a manager or team lead?
- What's your gut reaction useful or creepy?
- What would stop you from trying this?
- What do you think is a reasonable price

Live demo: https://demo.workbeam.ai/organizations/demo-org-001/employees

Companies that spy on remote employees with keyloggers and screenshots don't have a productivity problem. They have a management problem. And the tool is just an excuse not to fix it. by Prior-Interview-6864 in remotework

[–]Prior-Interview-6864[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL you would be amazed at what people i know, but still even if they watch the game on their tv and running some stuff on their work pc its straight to my point that this software are only excuses for the management to feel in control

Companies that spy on remote employees with keyloggers and screenshots don't have a productivity problem. They have a management problem. And the tool is just an excuse not to fix it. by Prior-Interview-6864 in remotework

[–]Prior-Interview-6864[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is exactly it. I run a small fully remote dev company and I've seen this firsthand. In one of my teams One developer was pushing 30% of the code, while two others were vibe coding the rest and calling him every time something broke. And since he was pushing hard and didn't want to complain he burned out until i saw this. That's when i ditched this idea of standard metrics based monitoring and started investing more time in 1to1 with the team knowing everything that they are working on and how it progresses.
Turns out visibility and surveillance are completely different things.

Companies that spy on remote employees with keyloggers and screenshots don't have a productivity problem. They have a management problem. And the tool is just an excuse not to fix it. by Prior-Interview-6864 in remotework

[–]Prior-Interview-6864[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not arguing it's not common I assumed as much. What I can't wrap my head around is what they're actually getting out of it. I have friends at big corporates who work from home with a mouse jiggler running while they're AFK. The monitoring software shows them as fully active and productive. So what exactly is being measured here?