[calpaterson]

If you have a six person team and you all speak for half an hour then you are definitely doing it wrong. You should ideally speak for no more than a couple of minutes.

Standups that routinely last longer than 15 minutes need to be corrected. Either split the team, don't have everyone talk every day or find some other way to cut time.

An email is not a terrible substitute if someone is working from home, but part of the value of a standup is that you can quickly ask questions and get answers right there and then.

[podperson]

I think the original writer means 30min of wasted time for six people, not 30min ranting per person.

[calpaterson]

I really hope that was the case, but he did say this:

> 6 person team * 30 minutes = 3 hours lost

[johnbellone]

6 person team * 30 minutes = 180 minutes / 60 = 3 hours

All of this helps if he would have used the common term man hours because 3 hours literally wasn't lost. In my experience the people that make these kinds of claims are the people usually confused about project management, at least for software development, in general.

Unfortunately at larger corporations everything comes down to how many man days a project can fit in a quarter without taking into account the fact that most phases in projects can't fire at the same time due to dependencies.

I actually think Gannt charts model this quite nicely for the higher ups.