> Besides being a dream for micromanagers, it seems to be more about signalling progress vs. actually making progress. There are two massive red flags in that

> Besides being a dream for micromanagers, it seems to be more about signalling progress vs. actually making progress. There are two massive red flags in that sentence. If the standup is being used as an excuse to micromanage something has gone horribly wrong. And if people don't use it to make progress (that is, asking for help and mentioning blockers) something else has gone terribly wrong. There are about a million discussions about how broken Agile is, most of which discuss some abomination of a process with very superficial similarities to Agile. It's not like having a standup is some sort of magically good thing on its own if people just use it to do things the way they've always done them. Cue the inevitable "If everybody is doing Agile wrong, maybe there's something wrong with Agile?" response, to which I would simply say that I've seen Agile work in at least two completely different workplaces, and I've seen how terrible non-Agile processes are in at least another two.