[jonathankoren]

In my experience, there’s rarely a reason why an entire team needs to know what everyone is doing. Tasks are decomposed. You may need an update from a single person, but you never need an update from eight people.

Encourage people to communicate directly. Share noteworthy progress and problems in the weekly meeting. Just make sure the meeting doesn’t devolve into a dramatic reading of the status reports.

[jimbokun]

Many times, you don't know a team mate is working on something that you would like to know about, or indirectly concerns you, or that you have an insight your team mate never would have thought to ask you about, if not for the stand up.

[jschwartzi]

The point of it isn't to know what everyone is doing, it's to know when someone is hung up on something that you can help them with.

[jonathankoren]

1) This is not a daily occurrence. If it, your team has more serious issues.

2) They can ask in slack. Encouraging people to reach out proactively is a skill and culture the team needs to develop.