A team standup has close to no value.
Having a high quality of life has a lot of value (including increased work productivity).
As the California Milk Campaign went - happy cows make quality cheese, and happy workers make quality work...
Again - one can be moved, the other cannot.
But in most companies standups are just agile cargo cult. Nobody knows why they are doing standups, so naturally they turn into "I publicly report to my manager and pretend I work really hard, because everybody else is doing that".
People forgot (or never realized?) that standups are not for the manager, they are for the team.
(Not to hate on balls: it was great playing volleyball in grad school. After 5pm. A couple of $B companies came out of that group.)
Standup everyday with people burnt out and depressed due to a lack of excercise and poor nutrition is a recipe for failure too.
I'll deal with exercise and nutrition on my own time, thank you very much.
I usually leave a standup with a list of 1-3 people I need to go talk to, to either move the code through bureaucratic processes, or an actual decision to make on which projects we’ll take on based on information found while engineering.
That said I also don’t care if my people say they have nothing of note and skip the meeting
Related to a comment further up the thread about fruits, a close friend of mine told me some time ago how one of his colleagues was complaining in the company chat about the kiwi fruits that were being given by the company as free perks having too much of that “hairy” stuff on them (I’m on my phone, too lazy to search for the exact English term), and how he preferred to be served “lean” and “shiny” kiwi fruits instead. Said friend works at the local subsidiary of a big US tech company of which everyone on this forum has heard about.
