I've pretty much given up on the old Scrum-style standup. It's just another form of torture that to put devs through. I agree with the ceremony itself, but for

I've pretty much given up on the old Scrum-style standup. It's just another form of torture that to put devs through. I agree with the ceremony itself, but for development teams, or even worse operation teams, trying to catalog and remember all the things you did yesterday, or Friday, is painful. Since we've moved over to Kanban, I've found it's much more useful to walk the board. We start on the right and move to the left. The discussion is much richer and I've found people no longer struggle to remember what they did yesterday. What the author suggests at the end, having everything written down in advance, is just another chore designed correct 'bad' behaviour (people not sure what to say, lots of 'umm, errs'). Perhaps we should be asking ourselves if it's the format rather than the people. Here is a blog post describing something similar to the one we're using now: http://brodzinski.com/2011/12/effective-standups.html http://brodzinski.com/2011/12/effective-standups.html