then you'll also have folks who would say "if your daily standup is a 'status update', you're doing it wrong". and they're probably right.
scrum.org - "The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours."
Most "daily standups" I've been at are performative song-and-dance with non-dev stakeholders running the meetings. They're definitionally just status meetings. There's no internal 'dev-only' talk, or identifying problems to work through, or sharing knowledge. Nope, it's just 'all non-devs need to know the status of every issue in a jira board, daily'. Why they can't just ... you know... look at the jira board they're forcing us to use, and see the status there... I dunno. Half the time when I'd update something there, I'd repeat in a meeting "all this is in jira". "Oh, I don't have time to comb through all that - it's too slow". OK... but if I DIDN'T update jira tickets... that was slowing down the team because "now people can't tell where you're at". So... there was no way to 'win' there...
the whole Jira thing really pisses me off. I hate Jira almost more than this scrum/agile nonsense. If no one wants to look at the damn board, why are we doing this??
> with non-dev stakeholders running the meetings
9 out of 10 standups I'm in have zero of the stakeholders necessary to unblock the work. I'm announcing my blockers to other devs that zoned out 10 minutes ago and the scrum master that will say something hollow and silly such as "keep working on that" or "make sure to ping so-and-so." Thanks. Want to come to the restroom with me and hold my pee pee so I don't fuck that up too?
We are all infants.
Also. Allllllso. Scrum Master. Scrum. Master. Shouldn't you people be Scrum Main? Or Scrum Primary? Or did you not get that memo? They are literally keeping their developer minions in check. It's a bit... how do I say this? On the nose? Much more in a way than a branch name of git ever was.
Ye, on average. Most people should ideally, in my mind, say "same old, same old" and let the next person speak.
I don't like the concept of dailies, but if there has to be one, three per week is a good deal. I understand how managers would want one in somewhat messy places.
If there are issues, you handle them outside of the daily scrum, it's not a troubleshooting session, it's a status update.