[iovrthoughtthis]

You might not.

“Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”

Doing standups for the sake of it is adherence to a process over the needs of you’re people.

Equally, a core principal of agile was always:

“The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.”

And I think it’s always worth considering if your truth is the same for everyone on the team. This is actually something I’d bring up in a review (assuming you have those too right?). If you all agree that notifying and handling problems in Slack is enough, that checking the board is sufficient the just do that? What is stopping you?

I would also look for actually data too back it up. How often are people blocked. How do they get unblocked. How long does that take. Etc. Gives you some insight into the reality of the situation and some ammunition to get things changed if you’re team isn’t really being agile and is just doing the corporate software eng dance.