[TooBrokeToBeg]

> Standups are (in my experience) usually a symptom of a low-trust environment

and or a high volatility process and or poor information flow. All of these things occur at different times throughout any company. Standups mitigate these issues and are not supposed to be these hour marathons that I see everywhere.

[iEchoic]

Agreed that those are other common causes.

I think that keeping standups short does very little to mitigate the damage they cause, though. The biggest cost isn't the time they take, it's the act of forcing your entire engineering team out of a flow state (or worse, forcing them to wait until after standup to even start) on a daily basis. That happens regardless of if they're 10 minutes or 30 minutes.