[colinhowe]

Except if you're already deep into work because you start earlier than everyone else then they just rip you out of your flow.

They also tend to be longer than five minutes in terms of herding people to them etc.

[thawaway1837]

The deep flow disturbance can be caused by any sort of communication. So basically, that’s an argument against communication, as opposed to being an argument against standups.

If anything, by being at a fixed time, either at the start, or the end of a team’s day, it’s far easier to prevent a standup from disrupting deep work than a Slack message would be.

[zorked]

You know it will disrupt you so you never even start the deep work. Victory!

[kchamplewski]

Except async communication doesn't disrupt deep flow if done properly since it should be simply ignored until flow breaks or pauses naturally.

A slack message won't disrupt my deep work because I'll have notifications turned off, unless it's extremely urgent in which case it would be too urgent to leave until a standup anyway.

[jmkni]

If they are at the same time every day, surely you can plan your work around that?