I think a more useful article would have mentioned different stand-up anti-patterns. Here's a short list off the top of my head. 1. Team members sharing about

I think a more useful article would have mentioned different stand-up anti-patterns. Here's a short list off the top of my head. 1. Team members sharing about things that aren't sprint goals. 2. Team members getting into more detail than is needed 3. Team members checking their phone 4. Stand-ups scheduled in the middle of a chunk of time (Scheduling at the beginning of the day or before/after everyone goes to lunch anyway means the lost productivity is minimal). 5. Team members each have isolated, individual projects, and don't reprioritize what to work on based on what the team is trying to achieve. 6. Stories aren't sufficiently broken down, so that each day the "update" from someone on the team is "Yesterday I was working on X, today I'm going to keep working on X." 7. The amount of work remaining never gets re-estimated (e.g., it's a good thing if you say "We thought in sprint planning that this was going to take 3 days, but then I discovered this new task, so even after spending 1 day on it, it will take 5 more days"). 8. Trying to solve everything in stand-up. It's better to treat stand-up as a sort of "triage" session for the team's daily issues, and then let people have conversations after to actually talk through solutions. 9. The Stand-up Is For the Manager. When the stand-up is just for the manager, it tends to feel update-y. When I've been on teams where the stand-up is for the team, team members use it as a way to ensure their own accountability with their peers, understand at a high level what their peers are doing and if they're struggling (in a broadcast manner, so every team member doesn't have to meet with every team member 1-1), and the team still finds it valuable to do even with the manager is on vacation or has a conflict. 10. The Stand-up doesn't address progress toward sprint goals, what things are at risk of not happening by sprints end, etc., because it is entirely focused on what tasks people are doing. If your standup is doing things, then (1) I understand why you think they're a waste of time, and (2) stop doing these things. :-)