People should try to think more long term about standups. Yes, maybe you could remove them and maintain the same productivity for a year, so they appear wastef

People should try to think more long term about standups. Yes, maybe you could remove them and maintain the same productivity for a year, so they appear wasteful. But removing accountability, can lead you occasional bad decisions, which lead to more frequent bad decisions and then 5 years later you have some REALLY bad habits in place. Standups feel like babysitting, and they are not necessary if everyone is just ready to work, but I think the accountability from publicly stating goals for the day has a subconscious effect that can lead to people getting into a great routine. I myself, never needed standups to prevent goofing off. But they really helped me get a handle on how bad I was at predicting the results of my work for a day. My optimize makes me perpetually underestimate the time it will take to do a task by a factor of 3-4. With practice in standups I've got that down to more like 2x.