[lukey_q]

I totally agree with the idea that teams should remove blockers as they come up. If someone on my team runs into a blocker 10 minutes after the standup, I hope for everyone's sake that they don't wait until tomorrow's standup to say something, if only because being blocked for a whole day is not really what you'd call "morale boosting".

I'm not a huge fan of in-person standups, but if you're going to do them really make sure they're useful and efficient. I worked at a small startup once where the entire company (~12 people) did a daily standup, which meant listening to what the salespeople were doing every day, and then telling them which bugs I was fixing. Overall pretty useless.

[polishdude20]

What's this thing with blockers? I'm not in software and it seems like they're just problems you encounter that need to be resolved before you can continue working? Why not go to your co-workers desk or message them and deal with it on the spot?

[lukey_q]

You've got it exactly right. It's something you need someone else's help with, and ideally you can just go ask them for help.

[mdu96]

yeah that's a really great point -- how standups are most useful when the people in them are working closely together, and especially not useful when the people aren't working closely together (e.g. like you and the salesperson).