Sometimes there just isn't much more to mention than "things are going well" or "things are done". Both of which I would expect a competent team to take as the default if nothing is being said, with the difference between the two shown through your list of issues / graphs / whatever people are using to track progress. At which point, if all you have to say is the default, it isn't that difficult to criticize the usefulness of doing things daily.

On the other end, having to report things based on a timeframe that tight relative to the work done will quickly devolve towards finding things to report on, no matter how unnoteworthy. Teach people to speak up and show noteworthy things instead and have a bit of faith in your other metrics and report pipelines.

So if the point is to gather and declare "no update" maybe there is no point, really? And if you have something else than "no update", why not to share it with relevant persons only, at any convenient time?

Somehow these last two sentences seem to contradict each other.

>Why wait for a single point of day to bring up any issues or share information?

Nobody does this, they do it immediately, at least all the places I've worked. I need help, first I try to figure it out myself, then when I'm stuck or want to make sure I'm doing it right, I ask the owner of the code I'm working with. This makes standups not only redundant (information has already been shared) but distracting.

>But, I do see the point of a daily sync up for team building, especially for remote teams.

I've found it to be a morale killer more so than a morale booster. Fuck I gotta stop what I'm doing for this stupid standup, or I'm not gonna do anything because the standup is in 45 minutes; I'll just get distracted.

I was once at a place where you actually stood up and the standups were 45 friggin minutes long. Total waste of time and I was so demoralized after it took me 30 minutes just to decompress and get stuff done.

They would be slightly better if done on M-F-W or even more so on T-TH. Once a week meetings for about 30 minutes with biz then 30 minutes with dev works great for our team.

Teams are built out of people, and I think if you ask you'll find that people overwhelmingly hate standups. So what exactly is this teambuilding building?

I hope teams aren't waiting for a daily stand-up to try and get unblocked, but there is definitely value in both sharing the summary of the blocker and publicly thanking anyone who helped unblock with the entire team. It (a) increases bus width, (b) builds the team and (c) takes 20 seconds.