[optymizer]

I've come to realize that stand-ups are generally useful. You're right that out of, say 15 people, only 2 care that you are struggling to import some dependency, but the rest overhear the discussion, they register some keywords and they know what you are working on. Maybe next month Joe Junior Dev goes directly to you with a question about that dependency instead of wasting half a day googling.

Then there is also the side effect of our monkey brains to give importance to people you see often. Stand-ups cultivate the feeling of "this is a team". It's important to show members what the team is.

Stand-ups however are not a requirement for a good functioning team. I'm leading a small team of senior devs and, despite my praise above, I decided against daily stand-ups. There is sufficient intelligence and communication, and just general professionalism in everyone in the team, that daily stand-ups are not worth the hassle and corporate feeling.

As a rule of thumb, if there are junior devs on the team, I would insist on having daily stand-ups on that team.