Good post, nice roundup of some of the ways standups can go wrong and right. I do think it skipped a common severe corruption of the daily standup, which is a

Good post, nice roundup of some of the ways standups can go wrong and right. I do think it skipped a common severe corruption of the daily standup, which is a daily application of micromanagement and deadline pressures. I’ve heard about successful daily scrum meetings but I now believe the inherent chemical instability of this practice makes it too dangerous for all but a few very disciplined teams and only when absolutely necessary. To me, scrum is the nitroglycerin of management methodologies. People who think they can handle it safely probably can’t. It’s wildly tempting for managers or stakeholders who are concerned with deadlines to hijack the meetings