The pointlessness of daily standups
I've worked in many teams that used standups, the general feeling was that they were utterly useless.<p>Except for management, as standups are a simple way of keeping psychological pressure on developers and squeezing every last bit out of them.<p>I even saw once a developer on his last day throwing the speaker's token (a teddy bear) to the trash can LOL!<p>Everyone on the teams I worked on seemed to think that standups where useless, this showed clearly through the team body language and tone in those meetings.<p>Its an interruption on your work just when you just got started in the morning, now you have to stop and go to a meeting.<p>What people are working on is usually unrelated and of no interest to each other, and if you need help you ask it anyway on the spot, there is no need to wait for the next standup for that.<p>It's hard to come up with different things to say on the meetings, as there aren't many things that have changed since yesterday.