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I agree completely. I'm certainly far more productive in the morning if there is not a standup or some recurring daily meeting scheduled... That defined inter

I agree completely. I'm certainly far more productive in the morning if there is not a standup or some recurring daily meeting scheduled... That defined interruption imposes a big cost in productivity beforehand. It squeezes everything. Why standups couldn't just be a handful of bullet points from each person when they spin up for the day in a Slack channel is something I have never quite understood.

clarry 7y ago
No standups where I work. If I need to know what my coworkers are up to, I just ask them. If they need to know what I'm up to, they ask me. Works great. We rarely need to ask. If there is an issue that affects multiple people, we can talk about it on the issue tracker, where we see commits too.
- thekingofh 7y ago
  I've watched how the morning standups are abused. The people with the authority to call them have wasted countless COUNTLESS hours of productivity going in circles about non-issues, just to flex their authority. If I'm upper management and I see daily meetings being called, I'm going to be quick to shut that down. Weekly is fine, but daily seems to me a misrepresentation of the amount of work that can be accomplished in one afternoon.