What I don't get is why these "standups" need to be in-person as well as every day. One of my current clients insists on doing them, wasting about 6% of my (ver

What I don't get is why these "standups" need to be in-person as well as every day. One of my current clients insists on doing them, wasting about 6% of my (very expensive) billable time on this. I don't mind, of course, I still get paid, but someone needs to run the numbers on this. 10 people, 15 minutes (sometimes longer if there's something to discuss), that 150 person-minutes _per day_, or 1.56 person-days per 5-day week if my math is right, just to share information that would be much more efficient to share over Slack. Most of the time it's stuff nobody even needs to know: "I worked on X, I will continue working on X". This is just dumb cargo cult, IMO. When I managed teams I just kept an eye on things and encouraged efficient, peer-to-peer communication. We'd also have a short planning meeting once a week. That was it. It worked great.