[blazespin]

There are different types of communication. Some things need to be communicated to the whole team, something you don't want to be doing more than once a day.

The one thing about stand ups that I find to be a profound waste of time is reporting what you've done. Isn't that what SVN / GIT / JIRA / etc is for?

[kylequest]

Sadly most of the time stand-ups turn into glorified status reports for managers/PMs :-( Stand-ups are meant for developers (carried out for developers by developers). If devs don't get enough value out of them (to offset the "distraction factor" they introduce) they shouldn't exist.

SVN/GIT commit messages and Trello/JIRA notifications sent to Slack/Hipchat/YourInternalIrcServer are a great way to aggregate all that information. You can write a Hubot/YourOtherChatBot plugin to gather and summarize that information to make it even easier to track.

By the way, with Hubot you can just say "What everybody is working on?" and it will show you the status for everybody.