Stand ups are not as much for developers as much as they are for transparency. But this overhead is deadly in a small, under-resourced team. Kanban is a better choice. Just let people blow through cards with as little communication as possible. The wonderful dynamic of a tiny team is that everyone still sort of knows what everyone else is working on.
> Stand ups are not as much for developers as much as they are for transparency.
Except the requirements for transparency is only for the developers, which makes it feel very degrading, all of the other people in this meeting, the leads, scrum master, product owner, ux etc, don't say anything about what they're doing, and they have no board with their tasks either so no transparency whatsoever.