I’ve been looked at as a madman or a heretic for calling daily stand ups a waste of time for years. I’d include this person’s “walk the board” idea as also a wa

I’ve been looked at as a madman or a heretic for calling daily stand ups a waste of time for years. I’d include this person’s “walk the board” idea as also a waste of time. There’s only one situation where a daily stand up makes sense, and that’s when you have a small group on a very tight deadline, ie an emergency situation. A daily standup is a many to one communication meeting. The implementing engineers are telling a project manager how much progress they made. Engineer to engineer communication is rarely meaningful. So many daily stand ups I’ve attended I either had no need to know what anyone else was working on, or I wanted an update from exactly one person at the meeting, yet I had to stand around and wait for for a bunch of irrelevant updates. What works better? Let the engineers self organize their communication. As long as everyone knows who is doing what, then they know who to ask. Have each engineer write an update a team doc at the end of the week saying how much was done, then update the tickets. Quickly review the doc at your team meeting, and move on.