I do some contracting from time to time with a devshop that has gone "full agile" - I love these people, and have a lot of respect for the work they do, but OH.

I do some contracting from time to time with a devshop that has gone "full agile" - I love these people, and have a lot of respect for the work they do, but OH. MY. GOD. save me from the fucking standups. What a totally useless waste of everybodies' time. I refuse to attend most of them in any case, which harms my standing with the project managers, but I seriously don't care - most standups as well as the majority of other project management activities they practice appear to be designed to keep the project managers happy, and contribute little to the overall quality or speed of delivery of the project at hand, and are a massive distraction to everyone involved. Daily $project_management_ritual should die.