The biggest problem with standups is that they inevitably balloon into all-encompassing, dragging status meetings where 95% of the stuff discussed is not releva

The biggest problem with standups is that they inevitably balloon into all-encompassing, dragging status meetings where 95% of the stuff discussed is not relevant to more than one or two people present. The other problem with standup meetings, although this is more of an issue back in the before-times when we actually went to the office, is that they turn into a de facto clock-in time. If the standup is at 10 AM, then over time, nobody bothers showing up until 9:55, because there's not sufficient time to do anything worth doing before being interrupted the standup, and if you had plans for the day, they'll get tipped ass-over-beanbox by some new urgent request from somewhere at the standup. I'm deeply envious of those fabled software developers of the past, before the Agile Manifesto, who were allowed to go work by themselves in a room for a whole day at a time, sometimes even two or three days. What luxury! Just imagine what you could do without people poking you with a stick every hour or so?