You want people to elaborate on the concept that standups &quot;keep people aligned on the work&quot;<p>Like you want a bunch of examples? How do you have some much patience for that if a standup interrupts your work?<p>Maybe you have them at the wrong time. We have one at 9:30 and it works. People who arrive early are pretty much cranking and the standup is a break from that. People who arrive later (me) show up and it&#x27;s the first thing of the day goes with a cup of coffee or tea.<p>Any breakouts can happen right after, have those discussions at somebody&#x27;s desk while you&#x27;re already interrupted and THEN jump into the long stretch till lunch. I don&#x27;t really see the interruption there.<p>Even if I get bored and dont&#x27; know what people are talking about some of the time, I&#x27;d say it&#x27;d be pretty selfish of me to claim that they are a waste of time. And it would also be stupid of me to think that something sent in an email or commmented on slack or lync is enough.  I mean if you could send a message and everyone got it the first time, I think there wouldn&#x27;t be a concept of marketing or advertising in the world. Sometimes people need to hear things twice.<p>I guess I&#x27;m just not big on keeping work in a black box. And I think it&#x27;s comical and sad that we go to jobs and stare at screens all day.  face to face interaction and having to express yourself to a group for a measly 30 seconds a day is a positive. It might even force a few of us to consider our appearance too.  And frankly, I think I&#x27;m paid to answer questions and be available to people as needed, so a standup is meant to be an efficient way to do that and it&#x27;s supposed to encourage brevity. If it&#x27;s not, start communicating push it in that direction.