[thrwaway3255]

I find that the daily standup is frequently a waste of time though often (maybe 1-2 times a week) issues I hadn't known about are brought to the fore. On a small team, I figure that if someone really needs something, they will reach out to the appropriate people to get it. This reduces communication overhead unless the whole team is required to make a decision.

I can see value in doing a standup somewhere between 1-3 times a week, but 5 times a week, unless everyone needs to work closely together on time sensitive issues seems excessive. The idea of everyone doing paperwork every day to be prepared for a low value meeting kind of gives me a headache. It seems like the opposite of lithe and agile.

[njharman]

You seem to be selfishly focusing only on the benefit to you. You are (or should be) part of a team. Even with your low 1-2 times a week, with 5 person team that is 5-10/wk. In otherwords every single day.

[eropple]

"Selfish" is the wrong word, and to me assumes a certain troubling kind of bad faith. People respond to incentives. If the performance of a team is not the primary evaluative factor for a developer (and it often isn't), then it makes no sense for somebody to focus on anything else. A developer must be incentivized to view those five to ten times a week as a plus to the point of not finding it worth complaining about.