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I think that is what a lot of people miss also on other things.

Daily stand-ups are mostly also not really that useful - but getting team together so they are used to at least 15-20 mins talking to each other I believe has benefits anyway.

The same with writing unit tests, I see my team is writing too many useless unit tests. But then if we have habit of writing tests - important tests will get written as well. If we would skip tests and say that we write only "important ones" then I saw that no tests were written in period where we had such an approach.



> Daily stand-ups are mostly also not really that useful

This is my feeling. Wouldn't a weekly meeting where we don't need to stand up be sufficient for this?

I guess it depends on the people and how they function. And how the team communicates throughout the day or the week.


My team's daily stand up is incredibly useful. If we didn't find them useful we would have no problem moving them to 2 or 3 times a week. YMMV but as a team lead I hate taking up more of people's time than necessary.


I think nowadays when we have video call everyone is sitting anyway. So you know maybe you can cheat :) no one will notice if you add background.




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