IMO the usefulness of standup meetings depends entirely on the project and the team. It's impossible to categorically say they're good or bad. For a while I w

IMO the usefulness of standup meetings depends entirely on the project and the team. It's impossible to categorically say they're good or bad. For a while I worked on a team with a small codebase, which we all knew pretty well, and it was very likely that if somebody made a change today, I'd be working in the same area of code in the next day or two. In that situation I thought standups were really helpful. My current team/project is a bit larger and it's maintenance on a much, much larger code base. The project is large enough that nobody really knows the whole thing very well, and everybody works on a different section and there's not much overlap. If I were to switch places with somebody I'd have a lot more to learn than just what they've worked on recently. On this project we're still required to do standups, but they're useless. The information wouldn't be very useful to me even if people kept to one or two sentences of what they were doing. Of course, few people do that, and they usually go into obscure details that maybe two people in the whole group really understand. And that's when I tune out...