Great to hear we're not the only team who does this. We are fully remote, and most articles on this seem to revolve around cutting standup to 15 minutes or les

Great to hear we're not the only team who does this. We are fully remote, and most articles on this seem to revolve around cutting standup to 15 minutes or less. Ours still stays pretty short, and is even 15 minutes sometimes, but frequently edges out towards a half hour. Since we're fully remote, and we do standup over voice, we only see each other via video a couple times every three-week iteration. So a little chatter at the beginning of standup is a way to just check in and see how people are doing, including in their personal life. Another idea to perhaps add: we've informally agreed that the time right after standup is typically reserved for small group discussions for any subset of the team. We're fully remote (and have been for 10 years), so when standup starts, our brains have already shifted to "talking" mode (rather than planning/coding/reviewing mode), so it's easy to just keep going and help talk through any issues that would benefit from synchronous communication. Sometimes we screenshare, but frequently not - we just talk through whatever we're stuck on or could use insight from others.