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You are not doing it wrong.

Standups can be traced back to the Scrum practice Daily Scrum. The Daily Scrum is a short (max 15 minute) synchronisation meeting for developers. It is explicitly not a status meeting for PMs. It eventually became known as a standup because people figured out that it was easier to keep the meeting short when you were not sitting down.

Scrum became popular, but it didn’t really make room for traditional project managers. So what to do with all the PMs? Teach them to be Scrum Masters.

This is where things started to go downhill. Most PMs just kept doing what they had always done, just using different names.

And so standups became hour long status meetings, inspect and adapt, sustainable pace and other good things were replaced with micromanagement and death marches. Dark Scrum was born.

This is of course greatly simplified. Agile Consultants and certification peddlers are also to blame.