> The biggest thing that I hate about standups is that it ends up being the de facto start of the work day. If you're supposed to start work at 9am, you can't d

> The biggest thing that I hate about standups is that it ends up being the de facto start of the work day. If you're supposed to start work at 9am, you can't do the standup at 9AM, because a third of the people who are supposed to be there will be running late any given day. So you do it at 9:30, or 10:00, or, god help you, at 10:30. And then it just works out that you can't actually do any real work in the morning I've been a deep proponent that standups should be done at lunchtime. Every place I've worked, I've tried to set the expectation that meetings are to be discouraged in the morning. Leave the morning aside for a chunk of deep work, use the standup to communicate where you're blocked and then segue directly into afternoon time where people can co-ordinate to unblock.