> making sure that team members are making progress and they're not blocked is very important If you are blocked, you don't want to wait until the next standup

> making sure that team members are making progress and they're not blocked is very important If you are blocked, you don't want to wait until the next standup meeting to address the issue anyway. Standups provide no benefit here. > Sometimes it's all unintelligible mumbling and serves no purpose other than cargo cult. I've come to the conclusion that standups exist simply to read the commit log to those who do not understand how to use <insert source control system>.