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I know there is a large sentiment at HN that the Daily Standup is dead, or an anti-pattern. However, the truth is Agile and Scrum are still huge. Plus, most do not have a say in the methodologies they use at their job. Why not try and make the most out of it!

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Standup was never part of Agile:

http://www.agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

The standup is obviously one method of applying "The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation."

Agile also strongly discourages remote work, under the same principle.

"Agile" means Scrum at my workplace. I wish it meant Agile still.

well the idea is that you're going to talk to your colleagues anyway for updates, the only person who really needs the daily standup is a manager who doesn't interact with the work all day.

it's like being treated like a child at times as if we aren't trusted with our own time. other departments don't have a daily standup, why is that?

That's a false idea, I think. I don't interact with all of the other people on my project team every day, but there are still dependencies and useful bits of knowledge that can be exchanged in outline at the beginning of the day. The standup is for all team members, managers and developers included.

Frankly, I think other departments would really benefit from daily standups. The reason they don't is likely because they're not a workflow where there are multiple small, distinct deliverables – which benefits the most from this approach.

If your team is too big to interact with through the course of your work, then your team is also too big for standups.

My team is currently three developers plus a product owner. Two of us might pair up on something for a day, while the third works on something else. We might not interact much during the day, but it's still useful to compare notes in the morning and understand if there have been any developments, changes in priority, or anything that could require discussion. I don't think that's unreasonable.

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