Engineers do not like Scrum Standups

[Evan Fishman - Quely for Jira]

12.5 weeks of engineering time.
Lost to daily standups. Every year. Across your team.

For a ritual most teams admit isn't working.

Here's the thing:

63% of developers genuinely dislike daily standups. That's the opinion of 2,300+ developers surveyed on Blind.

Not occasionally frustrated. Not burned out from a bad sprint. Just consistently checked out before the meeting even starts.

This is a huge coordination problem.

Standups became status reports because the underlying question  "does everyone know what's actually happening?" never got answered anywhere else.

So we meet. Every day. To reconstruct what should already be visible.

I've seen teams add more standups to fix the communication gaps from the first standup.

That's the loop: coordination failures → more meetings → less time to do actual work → more coordination failures.

The fix is making context visible before the standup needs to exist.

When people already know what's happening, what was decided, and what's blocked, the need for a standup drastically reduces.

[Danno]

@Evan Fishman - Quely for Jira I agree 100% with the survey. I am a scrummaster but I don't like the idea of a daily standup either. It should be obvious regarding what people are working on and what they will be working on. I think there is a missed opportunity, though, to share what is going well and who is having an issue that could use some constructive input. Possibly get consensus that something should perhaps go back to the backlog or be abandoned. If there is a consensus on that then you have a team building opportunity instead of a Status update.

I think the reason they hate the daily standup is that they aren't having it with a scrummaster who is supposed to insulate the team from having to update product owners and other management whose lifeblood is a status update. Again, why aren't they getting their information from whatever tool they are using? Not enough training to show them how to do it.

I also think not enough attention is paid to the planning stage.