Lol. 30 minute standups. Outside of a very time critical release, standups are absolutely worthless. There is no need to coordinate when multiple people are in

Lol. 30 minute standups. Outside of a very time critical release, standups are absolutely worthless. There is no need to coordinate when multiple people are independently working on separate projects. All too often standups degenerate to sequential 1:1 micro status reports. Even if that micro coordination is beneficial, there’s no point for the manager to even be there since they’re not actually doing any of the work. All they need need to know is if the project is hitting its milestones, and daily updates are simply too noisy for that. Even if you disagree my opinion of the efficacy of standups, 30 minutes is 2-3x too long, as every description of a healthy standup I’ve ever read says they should be quick. 10 to 15 minutes at most. Subdivide the teams, or take the discussions offline. This isn’t the way they should be run.