Agreed, that is the value of the stand-up, it is forced team communication. Most teams suck at communication so it can have benefits. If you have an amazing com

Agreed, that is the value of the stand-up, it is forced team communication. Most teams suck at communication so it can have benefits. If you have an amazing communicating team, you don't need them. The big problem that most meetings have is lack of agenda and a meeting runner who doesn't keep people on task. Most meetings end up with one person who can't debug X so can everyone help solve that problem during the stand-up. The point of listing blockers is to pull off a sub team LATER that can help resolve the blocking issue. It is a shame because all of the corporate processes are designed simply to overcome poor and ineffective communication. If only we invested in teaching people how to communicate instead. Where I am now, they have switch to SAFe which is the least agile process I've ever seen. Planning 3 months at a time is the opposite of agile. It is really just parallel waterfall that is run as "agile" day to day. It is useless. But the higher up want their meaningless GANNT charts so here we are.