I will make a blanket statement:<p>I believe existence of daily standups in any organization shows lack of trust. If the timelines are clear and everyone knows what to deliver why have that distraction at all? Even if its just 15 mins.<p>What do you guys think?
From my own team experience, I believe they are benefitial for several reasons. Each person speaks about what their plans and goals are for the day, giving them some sort of responsibility to complete those tasks, it also gives us time to ask for help or advice with problems we are struggling to solve.<p>The time is also spent just talking, about our personal lives, company politics, current events, funny stories, anything.. it allows the team to connect on a deeper level than just our daily work. Compared to other teams in the company I do not see the same connection between team members as ours which I see as a result of not doing a stand up.<p>A standup should not be about trusting your coworkers or not, it should be about connecting with the team and understanding the team.
It's not a blanket statement, that's exactly what daily standups are for. It's a micromanagement tool because they don't trust their employees.<p>If you're stuck or blocked on something, you should talk to whoever you need to immediately. If you need to talk to someone, that's what the chat's for. If it's supposed to be a way for the team to bond, then it shouldn't have anything to do with status updates, talk about the weather instead.<p>It's so obviously a micromanagement tool, but sometimes you can piss on someone and they'll believe you when you say it's raining