Standup is not for interesting things, it should always be as simple as, what did you work on yesterday, today and are you blocked. Nobody fucking cares about the details, that should be another meeting not standup.
These sound like productive meetings that are well worth the time, but they seem more like “working together well as a dedicated team of enthusiasts” than “standups” in the strict agile sense of the word.
They don’t even seem to align with a goal of “adhering to an arbitrary system of check marks and KPIs.”
Our standups sometimes take an hour, but that’s only when we have lots of interesting things we want to discuss.
We’re never “stuck” for an hour, it’s just one of the better opportunities we have to coordinate, being in separate locations and all.
Standup is not for interesting things, it should always be as simple as, what did you work on yesterday, today and are you blocked. Nobody fucking cares about the details, that should be another meeting not standup.
We’re 3 people very much interested in all of the things being said.
These sound like productive meetings that are well worth the time, but they seem more like “working together well as a dedicated team of enthusiasts” than “standups” in the strict agile sense of the word.
They don’t even seem to align with a goal of “adhering to an arbitrary system of check marks and KPIs.”
If it’s so interesting you should be writing it down in the documentation.