Done properly they can be useful, done the way most people implement them e.g. status meetings, they are a waste of everyones time and idiotic. Stand ups are t

Done properly they can be useful, done the way most people implement them e.g. status meetings, they are a waste of everyones time and idiotic. Stand ups are the way for lazy "managers" to find out what is going on. Leaders already know because they talk to their team everyday and have already given advice, assistance or connected people to resolve the issue. I rarely use stand ups within dev teams. Where I do use a form of them is between departments, or between teams within a department, but rarely at the internal team level.