As a fairly new out of university and with my first startup job, I found the newly introduced daily standup a motivation saver & reduced stress in the group. O

As a fairly new out of university and with my first startup job, I found the newly introduced daily standup a motivation saver & reduced stress in the group. Our dev sub-group had no sync-meeting except weekly-meetings where we met the entire department that presented their progress that didn't give us any insight in what was going on at all. Didn't help that our sub-group responsible where the CTO, that was mostly absent for investor/customer/management meetings. Tasks where distributed really unevenly, some devs got isolated in their module/tasks for week/months and lost sight of where the development was at the moment. standups seems to work pretty well when the person in charge have insight in to how each members work fit in to the overall picture, and would rather not manage the group much more than making sure people are not trailing off. It helps the group more than the managers, if done right.