[cja23]

I've done daily stand-ups under the Scrum methodology that the whole team liked and found successful. In my experience, it goes best if the emphasis is strongly focused on getting the team members to communicate to each other and to the team as a whole. If everyone is just standing around waiting for their turn to deliver status to the boss, the stand-up is a poor use of time since, as you suggest, the boss could just do the walk-around and collect that status one-on-one. When I've been "scrum master", I make sure the boss/customer/product owner stays quiet in the stand-ups and nudge the team culture towards using the time for the team to talk to itself, synchronize everyone's knowledge and expectations, and build coherence and comraderie, ideally ignoring the extra people in the room.

It's definitely work to build and maintain that kind of culture, but I've had many people tell me it makes them want to come to work in the morning because they enjoy starting off this way. It also helps that I try very hard to make sure this is the one and only recurring "meeting" they have.