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The biggest time sink of dev time is scrum.

Next in line is presentations for management.

Next is bullshit political meetings that engineers are forced to have to remove people blockers. I have no idea what managers are useful for if they can't handle people issues.

Next is nonsense nitpicks on PRs and design docs. If manager has a peculiar OCD about something, don't waste dev time on that. Work on your own OCD.

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Yes, a daily meeting every morning to tell people what you did the day before feels like baby sitting.

If that's what you're doing then you're not using that opportunity correctly. It's a very quick coordination between members of a team to align among one another, share important information (including managing expectations) and ask for help. It's for members of the team, and if the team don't feel it's adding value, raise it in the retrospective and decide whether to iterate or kill it. If you're using it well it cuts out other waste/interrupts.

That's ridiculous. If I need help,I don't need to wait 24 hours for a standup. I'll just go ask right away

100% - it's an absurd reason for the existence of standups

I didn't say it was reason for a daily meeting. If you don't find you need them, don't do them. Just agree with your team they are unnecessary. The teams I have worked with have always found it helpful to be able to adjust their plans with the whole team in situ (e.g. I need someone to help me with X; ok, I can help if someone else could do Y; cool, if Z can work with me, I think we could do Y. If we do this, we should tell A that B won't be done this week.)

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