Think of the standup-time as the upper-bounds on how long a problem will block someone before everyone knows about it instead of the lower-bound on time-to-cure

Think of the standup-time as the upper-bounds on how long a problem will block someone before everyone knows about it instead of the lower-bound on time-to-cure. If you always know who can solve every problem for you, then you’re either not doing very interesting things or you’re burning that person out, and Management (including the engineering team leads) needs to know this.