[bradknowles]

Standups should be strongly limited in time. If you’ve got a big team, then each person has less time to summarize what they’re working on today and what blockers they may have.

For smaller teams, each person could have more time to talk in more depth about what they’ve done and what they’ve got planned, but that doesn’t scale well.

Ultimately, they are something you don’t appreciate until you don’t have them. Then all hell breaks loose, and people much further up the food chain start wondering why you and your team are still working there.