> If you read the literature, it is argued that for this to work it is absolutely forbidden for project managers to join these meetings. This is, however, a uto

> If you read the literature, it is argued that for this to work it is absolutely forbidden for project managers to join these meetings. This is, however, a utopian view. It's nothing utopian, we don't have project managers join stand-ups. > Given that our team are distributed across several time zones, it is logistically infeasible to hold a daily synchronous meeting. I understand that stand-ups are terrible for global distributed remote teams because people need to adjust their time. But there's no need to ditch it as a whole. For onsite teams, it can be good: A team that only uses WIPs, no deadlines. The stand-ups are just a very short and informal meeting to let people: 1. Synchronize what other people are doing, in order to avoid conflicts and reworks. 2: See if anybody needs help. And that's it. We also do some funny gestures that do not hold, or do heavy-lifting when speaking just to make it quicker and more informal. It's just when the culture is bad, the stand-ups would be one of the whips that bad managers could leverage. If there are no stand-ups, they could still reach for other tools. To practice stand-ups properly the key idea is to have a no accusing or shaming team culture. Strive for it even if you have a little bit of power to practice; Protest it if you don't; Leave if you can do nothing about it.