Daily stand-ups are inefficient but sometimes necessary when a team lacks planning or clear expectations. They work as a temporary crutch to get everyone aligned, not a permanent solution.
The takeaway here isn't necessarily like, hey, never do standups or kill your standups. Right now it is, hey, are you wasting time on this? Like, are you eating up a lot of folks time either to fulfill an emotional need that you have or to fulfill a lack of planning or like, basically a vacuum around information and a vacuum around clear expectations. This is your crutch for the lack of infrastructure that you've got built right now. And then I think there are seasons when we get injured where we do need crutches. So. So there might be a season where this makes sense. There might be a specific team where, hey, I realize we've got unclear expectations set right now, or I realize we need to find some way to pick up and create more momentum. So for this specific season, we're going to plug in a daily standup or we're going to get together three times a week to do this. Like, I'm willing to pay the inefficiency cost because we need that live time together until we figure out how to build the infrastructure. Generally speaking, it's a crutch. Crutches are useful sometimes and so don't throw it out entirely and never look back at it as an options.
