[ojkelly]

Two 30m standups in a day aren’t really standups. That’s starting your day with an hour of meetings. Which is probably partly responsible for killing the momentum you need to get through your work.

You’re anxiety is likely because you don’t feel safe sharing the amount of progress you did or didn’t make. Unless your working on the most basic boring stuff, you’re not going to have the same rate of progress—at least not in a manner that is easily digestible in a standup.

I’ve seen this play out in so many teams over the last decade. A standup shouldn’t be a daily grilling on progress by higher-ups. If you’re team is full of adults and professionals, you don’t need hurrying along.

IMHO A standup over 15m means the team is too big, or you’re all sharing too much.

The most useful thing I’ve found standups do is surface blockers to the whole team, as there is often someone who can help that you might not expect.

If you need to go deep into anything, do it after the standup so others can leave.