[seer]

The thing with dailies is not that you share your updates, its more that you’re forced to listen to everyone else’s.

Granted you can always snooze a bit and pretend, but that kind of bad faith is usually indicative of other deeper problems with the team.

Also this can become a drag if you’re “held accountable” rather than “helped in need” but smart leaders would recognize that and attempt to fix the problem in the team, and a daily like that can be a tool for them to diagnose problems like this.

[jeresuikkila]

> you’re forced to listen to everyone else’s.

This seems to be an overlooked aspect here in the comments too. Yes, nobody likes to be forced to do something but in this case it's worth it. We have enough distractions as it is so taking 15 minutes to focus on what's important to our colleagues can bring forth valuable connections of ideas and people.

[mytailorisrich]

Face to face communication, and thus listening to others, is the whole point of the daily scrum.