The pointlessness of daily standups
Don&#x27;t agree with this assessment at all, we do stand-ups and it rarely takes more than 5 minutes. It help immensely with production as your colleagues often help keep things from falling through the cracks. (I.e. someone forgets something). Or they might be able to help you out, or further along because they&#x27;ve done something similar. When they do, you don&#x27;t do it during the stand-up to not disrupt that.<p>Overal I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s disruptive at all to do a short stand-up, constant nagging however is very disruptive. That person that just walks in or starts spamming you on slack takes more time altogether per instance than a single stand-up does. It takes you out of your process, you then have to pick that up again. If you&#x27;re working on something complex that can mean it takes an additional 10 minutes before you&#x27;re back on track. That&#x27;s the kind of disruption stand-ups can help prevent.<p>This of course only works if you actually stick to what the stand-up is meant for.