Heh, on one of the projects I once worked on, we had a problem with the stand-ups getting too longwinded, and so we instituted a 1-minute time limit for each persons&#x27; update.  And then we were like &quot;Hey, this is working pretty well, let&#x27;s see if we can shrink the time limit!&quot;  We ended up getting it down to 10 seconds&#x2F;person, with the entire standup over in one minute.<p>The essential purpose of a standup is to make sure everyone knows what everyone else is working on, to identify any potential blockers early, and to get the right people collaborating <i>offline</i> to work out details.  It really doesn&#x27;t take very long to say this: &quot;ComponentX, componentY; Blocked on componentZ; need to talk to Bob and Sue afterwards&quot; is fine.