I can't believe anyone thinks a daily reportorial meeting by everyone to everyone is a good idea.
(Please don't bother telling me that's not what scrum and agile is supposed to be. I know, I got the training. Maybe you can instead suggest a way a daily standup doesn't devolve into that pretty quickly no matter what anyone says at first.)
One thing I've noticed is that so many people attempting to run software development projects are literally blind to information flow. They simply cannot conceive of the constraints of how information needs to flow... who would need to know what and when and where that information could come from. Any rational way of organizing this just moves straight to ball-of-mud, where everyone needs to know everything from everyone else. Any single gap impacts almost everything. I wonder why the velocity metric is so low!
It's basically a shitty way to push people to communicate. When people mention "well just get rid of it and talk asynchronously", one of the counterarguments tends to be "but X may not communicate".
Of course, no one bothers to answer the question "why does an adult need a daily reminder to speak?", and no one considers the repercussions of such a ritual (people will start hoarding questions until the daily, which makes the daily longer, which.. you get the point).
That's the entire problem with Scrum anyway. It expects a very specific environment and immediately risks becoming redundant in such an environment (based on team preferences). Outside of that environment, it fails to do anything.
I'm on a remote team and we do a video call standup once a week and the other days we just post our updates to slack at the same time every day. Folks do tend to read each other's updates and add comments when they have input. It works reasonably well for us.
(Please don't bother telling me that's not what scrum and agile is supposed to be. I know, I got the training. Maybe you can instead suggest a way a daily standup doesn't devolve into that pretty quickly no matter what anyone says at first.)
One thing I've noticed is that so many people attempting to run software development projects are literally blind to information flow. They simply cannot conceive of the constraints of how information needs to flow... who would need to know what and when and where that information could come from. Any rational way of organizing this just moves straight to ball-of-mud, where everyone needs to know everything from everyone else. Any single gap impacts almost everything. I wonder why the velocity metric is so low!