Daily meetings, standup or not, gimme a break! Meetings are a waste of time. Period. No exceptions.

A major flaw in Scrum, and most of the so-called Agile ‘methodologies’ is that they ignore the hard lessons of decades of experinece, by prentending that all problems can be fixed on the fly and nodoby needs to actually THINK about anything.

But the worst thing about Scrum, et al, is that the same clueless management types who can’t and won’t see the value in archicture, design, and attention to quality, have seized on the ‘Agile’ methods promise of short timeframes, and they see nothing else.

Haste make waste. Always and forever.

Nothing replaces hard work and critical analysis. Good architecture and sound design are what is truly agile.

All else is hacking.