I think a more useful article would have mentioned different stand-up anti-patterns. Here's a short list off the top of my head.<p>1. Team members sharing about things that aren't sprint goals.<p>2. Team members getting into more detail than is needed<p>3. Team members checking their phone<p>4. Stand-ups scheduled in the middle of a chunk of time (Scheduling at the beginning of the day or before/after everyone goes to lunch anyway means the lost productivity is minimal).<p>5. Team members each have isolated, individual projects, and don't reprioritize what to work on based on what the team is trying to achieve.<p>6. Stories aren't sufficiently broken down, so that each day the "update" from someone on the team is "Yesterday I was working on X, today I'm going to keep working on X."<p>7. The amount of work remaining never gets re-estimated (e.g., it's a good thing if you say "We thought in sprint planning that this was going to take 3 days, but then I discovered this new task, so even after spending 1 day on it, it will take 5 more days").<p>8. Trying to solve everything in stand-up. It's better to treat stand-up as a sort of "triage" session for the team's daily issues, and then let people have conversations after to actually talk through solutions.<p>9. The Stand-up Is For the Manager. When the stand-up is just for the manager, it tends to feel update-y. When I've been on teams where the stand-up is for the team, team members use it as a way to ensure their own accountability with their peers, understand at a high level what their peers are doing and if they're struggling (in a broadcast manner, so every team member doesn't have to meet with every team member 1-1), and the team still finds it valuable to do even with the manager is on vacation or has a conflict.<p>10. The Stand-up doesn't address progress toward sprint goals, what things are at risk of not happening by sprints end, etc., because it is entirely focused on what tasks people are doing.<p>If your standup is doing things, then (1) I understand why you think they're a waste of time, and (2) stop doing these things. :-)