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The comparison to a soccer team is very odd. Further, Brian seems to completely misunderstand the point of standup as he's trying to argue that standup is not conducive for collaboration.

Standup is not the forum for collaboration. Standup, and the three associated questions is purely and simply a dialog enabler. A healthy team has multiple dialog enablers. It's what helps break down the invisible barriers of communication and collaboration. ShapeUp recommends another great dialog enabler - appetite. It's quite literally why dialog enabler tools like gather.town and Slack Huddles exist - because teams struggle enabling dialog.

Cherry on top: Brian opens up by ridiculing appeal to authority, then finishes the article by appealing to authority.

> Managers around the world blindly adopt the same standup meeting format, without critical thought to its usefulness. It is the meeting agenda version of “you won’t get fired for buying IBM”.

> Now that the latest official Scrum guide has already removed the 3 questions, our industry should consider eliminating them too.