[jkulmala]

I've used Scrum/Agile for several years and daily stand-ups seemed to the thing a lot of people hated. As a started my own business (Financial Analytics for SaaS) I finally understood why. An effective process shouldn't need polling to keep it going - which the meetings really are.

I'm happy to see new processes appear, where that kind of extra hassle is removed, like: http://timeblock.com

In timeblock, communication happens when a developer can't get his task done. Otherwise everyone can assume that the week will proceed as planned.

In practice this seems to keep people happier than Agile/Scrum.