Ask managers - they love standup. Counts as productive work for them Ask Product Managers - they love standup. Counts as productive work for them Ask engineer

Ask managers - they love standup. Counts as productive work for them Ask Product Managers - they love standup. Counts as productive work for them Ask engineers - they hate standup. Because these meetings actually get in the way of real work for engineers. Engineers don't need a standup to get in touch with other engineers. If something blocks them, they can reach out to each other immediately. Stand-ups are clearly something to satisfy a manager's curiosity about their reports. But management really needs to take a hard look at introducing overhead to the actual producers. More bureaucracy == less productivity