> turns the question into the one of "is it possible to do real standups?" The answer to that is yes. But only if you have someone with the authority to interr

> turns the question into the one of "is it possible to do real standups?" The answer to that is yes. But only if you have someone with the authority to interrupt when it goes off-track. I frequently do that, but it usually takes a very long time to convince the people I work with that someone needs to have this authority(interrupting people is usually considered rude, whereas unrelated rambling is really the rude part by being disrespectful of all the people that are not interested in it). On paper I thought that that's the role of the scrum master. But in practice I've never seen a scrum master do that. I usually offer this to the project owner, but usually the project owner is the one rambling the most in standups. Practically speaking what happens is that when people start rambling I interrupt and tell them to take the discussion to the 2-3 other people that need to discuss this with him/her after the meeting.