On the teams I've been on that are actively doing software development (not in some pre-coding phase where we're still figuring out requirements or something li

On the teams I've been on that are actively doing software development (not in some pre-coding phase where we're still figuring out requirements or something like that), if there wasn't a stand-up individuals created an identical coordination mechanism in an ad hoc manner. This tells me that there is something valuable to stand-ups, even if we don't always love them. If a team's stand-ups are not effective, there are lots of things you can try: refocusing the team's attention, have someone other than the normal "stand-up leader" guide the conversation, or change the time so that it's next to another interruption (for example, right before most people get lunch... this has the added bonus of incentivizing people not to ramble).