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Because it usually morphs into an hour long status meeting instead of an actual agile stand up meeting.
I've been a part of a few companies that did it right.
Before COVID, the stand up room had no chairs, only stand up tables. One TV and you had 20 minutes. Stand ups were back to back.
The most efficient use of my time as both an engineer and a people leader because you were forced to stay on task.
No bull shit. Just "I did x. I'm stuck on y. I'm waiting on z."
My last company had the most efficient standup meetings possible. We always did them by phone since 4/5 of the team was in India, so I was able to shower at home during them and then catch the bus in to work.
We do it like that too. Most meetings are not useful at all (no blockers), but at least we don't waste more than 15-20 minutes
The dream.