My wife works in healthcare and has a daily standup. They use that time to go over what work will be done that day, which largely cannot be predicted far in advance as it is dependent on patient bookings. This brings novel information.
Fundamentally, that is also the idea pushed in software. A chance to talk about what needs to be done that day. But, in my experience, tech companies also schedule planning meetings. That is where it is determined what will be done for the next while (two weeks seems to be a common cadence) and after that the course is set. There is nothing else to talk about, unless someone has a problem, and when someone has a problem (assuming your team is functional) they reach out when they have a problem, not wait until a prescribed time 23.75 hours later.
That means there is no additional information to give in the standup, and thus this is likely the source of why standups end up being pointless the vast majority of the time in tech. The healthcare case, on the other hand, provides clear value.
There are likely some cases where tech teams suffer from no direction, void of an idea of what needs to be done before the moment it needs to happen. I imagine that overlaps with tech that is dysfunctional. A productive standup does not exactly seem like something to strive for, but if all you have is a bandaid...
Fundamentally, that is also the idea pushed in software. A chance to talk about what needs to be done that day. But, in my experience, tech companies also schedule planning meetings. That is where it is determined what will be done for the next while (two weeks seems to be a common cadence) and after that the course is set. There is nothing else to talk about, unless someone has a problem, and when someone has a problem (assuming your team is functional) they reach out when they have a problem, not wait until a prescribed time 23.75 hours later.
That means there is no additional information to give in the standup, and thus this is likely the source of why standups end up being pointless the vast majority of the time in tech. The healthcare case, on the other hand, provides clear value.
There are likely some cases where tech teams suffer from no direction, void of an idea of what needs to be done before the moment it needs to happen. I imagine that overlaps with tech that is dysfunctional. A productive standup does not exactly seem like something to strive for, but if all you have is a bandaid...