The morning standup works great when it's all technical people. Keeps the team up to date with each others' progress and cuts down on "I spent three weeks being stuck" problems. Here's what I'm doing, and what I'm doing next, here's what I need a little help on.
When management get involved and the meeting starts with jira thrown up on the screen, sure, then it's terrible.
> If I want to spend 3 days learning a new framework that might do the product good, nobody cares. The only thing that counts is the endresult.
Here's the problem with that, not every schedule can take that 3 day lag, and someone has to make a decision about whether the product actually needs that new framework, or if it's going to be good enough without.
Maybe you're great at making those decisions, but I've seen many times when people end up going off down rabbitholes either just chasing something shiny, or through a sense of perfectionism that actually holds back release.