Engineer Replaces Daily Standups With Five Defined Transition Gates

Software engineer Anton, who works primarily in PHP/Symfony and Go, has shared a workflow methodology that replaces ongoing process monitoring with structured checks at defined transition points. His framework maps work across five stages — from requirements to release — where each transition has a specific acceptance criterion and a concrete, verifiable proof. The approach argues that common practices like daily standups, progress reports, and mid-process reviews answer 'how is it going' rather than the more actionable question of whether a step may be passed. Anton contends that watching work in progress only creates interruptions without producing any fact that a gate-based acceptance check would not already surface. The methodology is documented as a running series on his GitHub, framed as a personal practice with acknowledged trade-offs rather than a universal prescription.