It's true that most daily standups revolve around "The Three Questions," but that's not the point of stand-ups. The point is, every day the team has a forum whe

It's true that most daily standups revolve around "The Three Questions," but that's not the point of stand-ups. The point is, every day the team has a forum where it can potentially change course. It's an opportunity to identify whether my plan for the next 24 hours is still valid, in a similar way to how sprint planning lets the team change course for the next 2 weeks. It doesn't solve blockers, true, but it does allow triaging blockers, and helps to ensure that if someone is blocked you don't have no one jumping in to help (or everyone jumping in to help, which is also disruptive). Most teams I've been on with ineffective standups are usually a group of engineers working on independent work streams, who if they had to help each other wouldn't know how. The teams that have effective standups have a clear team goal, and engineers are willing to stop what they're working on in order to ensure that the most important work is getting finished.