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If you are stalled on something, AKA blocked in agile terms., then its the job of the scrum master to have people unblock you. Stand ups and agile are put in place to help people. Its sounds like the people in comment thread have had poor scrum masters/managers. I'm an engineer and scrum master and love the process of helping and being helped. Thats the whole point, not accountability.

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I think a lot of companies heard about "that agile thing" and implemented stand-ups because that's the stand-out thing they can emulate from whatever blog article they read. Or they don't even associate it with agile.

I don't think any of the places I've worked that did stand-ups were trying to do agile, it's just an attempt by the manager to know what's up without devoting much time to it. I haven't seen it work well in that context.

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