Standups are the worst part of Agile. I never understand why anybody likes them. As you said, they torpedo productivity. I went from a company with standups to

Standups are the worst part of Agile. I never understand why anybody likes them. As you said, they torpedo productivity. I went from a company with standups to no standups, and oh my it was glorious. I could actually get things done! Then two years later, they started adding them. They were so worthless. They added nothing to ICs and as a manager they added nothing to me either. I left shortly after, partly because of that.