Really? Damn, my friend.

Assuming you work 40 hours a week (ha, as if anybody works 40 hours) that's about 3% of your working hours.

Now, if that's an extra 1.25 hours of meetings tacked onto your existing meeting workload, okay, that's annoying.

But the idea behind daily meetings is that you should spend at least, uh, 3% of your time communicating anyway, so let's do some of it in a brief and scheduled way so we do a little bit less of it in an unscheduled, scattershot way.

You’re kidding, right? A 15 minute daily meeting would’ve been wonderful. My average work week usually involved three or more 4am starts to travel, three or more after 3am finishes to catch up, 80+ hours at my desk and at least ten hours of meetings. Some weeks would see me spending every daylight hour sat with clients or development teams, and every dark hour pounding out code, emails and proposals. It took a lot of drugs to keep going.

Also, you say “every day”, but I suspect you’re not including weekends and the days people generally take as holidays. I spent far too many Christmases on conference calls, or launching sites (it’s the quietest commerce day between October and February), and weekends were a thing other people had.

I only slowed down (and finally quit) when the hospitalisations for starvation and dehydration started getting really frequent.

I’m through burnout now and out the other side - I no longer have any interest in being a productive member of society, no ambition, and I’m finally something like happy.

Either way, I’m sorry, 15 minutes of scrum a day is not a burden.