I find the whole standup discussions hilarious. Primarily because the same discussion will always have massive proponents of stand ups offering at least 2 compl

I find the whole standup discussions hilarious. Primarily because the same discussion will always have massive proponents of stand ups offering at least 2 completely contradictory justifications for stand ups. 1) Standups are for knowing what your team is up to. 2) Standups are for removing blockers. If (1) is correct, then let’s just call them what we always did before the SW Project Management Industry decided to buzzword it. Status updates. And if they are status update meetings, then the simple question becomes why they should be daily. Their cadence should be dependent on the type of work the team is doing. If the type of work you’re doing means the majority of your work items are done in a day or less, then by all means have a daily status update meeting. However, if like many teams, the majority of your work are items which take 2-3 days, if not weeks, to complete, then why not just do 1-2 status update meetings a week? And when it comes to removing blockers, why have a daily meeting at all. Why not do it in an async format using mailing lists (or Instant message/Teams/Slack/etc) instead. That ensures you’re not blocked waiting for the standup, and everyone is aware of your blocker as soon as is convenient for them. In practice, however, Standups tend to be a mixture of both (and that’s how they are usually defined...what you did yesterday/what you will work on today is status updates, and blockers is about removing impediments). And that makes even less sense from a purely theoretical perspective (never mind the scores of practical experiences where it’s been a disaster), because those 2 tasks have different ideal cadences. Blockers are something that should be shared immediately, as they happen. Status updates, however, should have a far slower cadence, where you need to balance the need to keep the team informed about your work, and share progress towards goals, with the fact that each update is an interruption, and so the ideal cadence would be dependent on the nature of the work the team does. The idea of a daily standup is a good fit only for teams whose work happens to be such that once a day happens to be an appropriate cadence for their status updates. And even then it’s not a good solution for the blockers removing aspect.