I think stand-ups are valuable, but not for this reason. It is simple to exaggerate the unexpected difficulties of a task. You can watch videos on YouTube all day today and tomorrow say, &quot;Yesterday I worked on auto frobbing widgets but ran into difficulties with the foo widget because it didn&#x27;t frob correctly. Today I&#x27;ll be fixing the foo widget and completing the auto frobber&quot;.<p>No one will bat an eye (so long as you put meaningful terms in there) until this happens for several days in a row. Nor should they, because the micromanaging alternative is worse.<p>Stand-ups aren&#x27;t a motivating factor for typical developers. It drives some accountability for people who are just accomplishing nothing for weeks, but that could be accomplished by looking at the checkins once a week, too.<p>[edit: phone typos]