Standups should eliminate almost all other meetings engineers need to attend. Except to go deeper on questions that came up in standup that cannot be instantly resolved.
Otherwise yeah there’s really no point.
Otherwise yeah there’s really no point.
literally everything else is work off the kanban board or backlog.
in my teams everyone was told to decline all meetings unless it explicitly led to the completion of a weekly planned story/task. this way all meetings for the team have a clear agenda and end in mind.
for mandatory external meetings & running interference with external parties, there are ways to insulate the majority of the team from that.
the point was in a 40 hour work week, it's reasonable for 15% of it to spent in coordination meetings, while 85% is directly related to progress.
Usually the retro is after the demo when other folks leave the room / drop from the zoom :-)
If the Scrum Master or whatever their title schedules any other repeating process meetings, fire them.
It was almost like they required the standup as part of the process but never used it the way it should be used.