[zyngaro]

People in tech keep complaining about daily standup don't know that is a common practice in pretty much every line of work. It's just a team synchronisation moment.

[marcosdumay]

A meeting with that periodicity (or a multiple of it) is common on shift-based jobs that oversee constant operations.

It's not common on any other line of work... well, except for software development, that is almost universally single-shift, non-operational, and some people insist has exactly the same needs as overseeing patients in a hospital.

[SoftTalker]

Yes, it makes sense when there is a "hand off" of continuing operations to the next shift.

For something like software, being produced by ICs or even pairs, a fixed daily meeting is much more likely (at least in my experience) to become a ceremony[1] over time even if it is occasionally or initially beneficial.

[1] was wanting to find a link but could not. I'm using this word in the sense that Tom DeMarco used it in Peopleware.

[myth_drannon]

Ah, you're right, handover procedures between shifts.

[myth_drannon]

That's very surprising to me. Even in tech it became common only a decade or so ago. I don't know any other industry where it is common, except the military and the daily morning flag raising/morning formation...

[doubled112]

Used to do a daily stand up at the big box store I worked in.

Last year’s numbers, today’s goal, what needed to go out, etc.

I always wondered what they thought I could do about the numbers. People are either coming to buy stuff or they are not.

[wiseowise]

It’s a common practice to describe who farted and how loud yesterday?

[browningstreet]

I've been on daily standups for groups of people who weren't on a team. It was like a floor's #random slack channel.