Exactly, most of the time engineers already know what managers truly want - say if the manager asks the team about 4 standups per week, then obviously 4 times a

Exactly, most of the time engineers already know what managers truly want - say if the manager asks the team about 4 standups per week, then obviously 4 times a week is manager's preference. Most of the time no one will object, and just do the bloody stand ups. If a manger thinks that that's not the case in their particular team, and the team members always speak their mind, then I have a bridge to sell to that manager. Or to look at it the other way around: how many times engineers themselves _asked_ their manager to do those stand ups? Yep, wouldn't be that many.