We do a weekly standup with the team (working on the same product) and monthly company all hands. It's very useful to be aware of what everyone is working on. S

We do a weekly standup with the team (working on the same product) and monthly company all hands. It's very useful to be aware of what everyone is working on. Sure it takes 15 minutes and it's a distraction. Thats why we do it only once a week in person and every day via a Slack channel (simple message, hi i'm working on xyz today). Not doing a standup makes it easier for things to go off track. People working on the wrong things, making mistakes with prioritization by not being aware of what other people are working on. Maybe you don't notice this as much as an individual contributor. As a manager I've seen this go wrong so many times. The group of people should be relatively small. Definitely < 20. But for that group every should have a rough idea of what everyone else is working on. It's also the realization that I can't/won't fully plan out someone's personal roadmap for them. They need to understand what the team is working on, what the business priorities are and make their own tradeoffs. I set high level priorities of course, but I think people should have control/ownership over their day to day tasks.