Depends on the stand-up. For the past 10 years I'd say most of my standups have been painless, quick, and productive, but I've both selected good jobs and/or w

Depends on the stand-up. For the past 10 years I'd say most of my standups have been painless, quick, and productive, but I've both selected good jobs and/or worked with the team for that to be the case. Mine usually don't last more than 10-15 minutes, no one has to read ticket by ticket and give detailed status updates, we simply look at 2 columns on the board (for what's in progress and what's in waiting/blocked) and ask: "anything someone want to bring up about these tasks?" to have a sanity check if everything is alright or if someone needs help, or if someone wants to share some quick information. After there's a general question "anything else you want to bring for the standup?" for the stuff we don't have a ticket for, or quick updates from PMs/EMs about things outside of our current scope/context. Any further discussion is taken after the standup, if some topic starts to grow into a discussion we are strict about bringing it for discussion with the interested ones right after the standup. Those discussions never last more than 20-30 min, if they need more time we schedule a meeting with proper agenda, etc. Whenever I worked at a place with dysfunctional ones I either managed to help correct course, or quit the job. To me teams with good standup hygiene will very likely have meetings/processes hygiene as well, and is a very good signal of a well functioning team.