Do you find daily stand-ups useful?

Done properly they can be useful, done the way most people implement them e.g. status meetings, they are a waste of everyones time and idiotic.

Stand ups are the way for lazy "managers" to find out what is going on. Leaders already know because they talk to their team everyday and have already given advice, assistance or connected people to resolve the issue.

I rarely use stand ups within dev teams. Where I do use a form of them is between departments, or between teams within a department, but rarely at the internal team level.

I know stand-ups are hated by a lot of devs, but I actually find them worthwhile in my current job. The keys points seem to be: 1. It's a small fully remote team. 2. The stand-ups are short, usually about 5 minutes and rarely more than 10.

For me they are an easy way to keep up with what other people are working on. When I need to make some changes to a module I'm not familiar with it's helpful to be vaguely aware of who has been working on what.

It's also a convenient time to bring something to a coworkers attention. I'll often come up with a few questions that aren't particularly urgent. In those cases, I'll save them for the next morning's standup rather than directly messaging that person and potentially interrupting their workflow.

They are an abomination. Many people in the daily meetings make up issues that are non-issues that are just part of normal daily activities. And then there are the ones that whine daily about trivial matters that shouldn't even be discussed in these groups. Then there are the dead horse beaters that can never talk enough about issues that have long been solved, just to kill time. I could go on, but then it would seem like I'm in a daily stand-up.

Generally speaking, yes. But I will qualify that by saying that I've never really found it necessary to have them every day. I've often found that a 3 day a week cadence works well.

I also don't find the need to insist that the participants actually be standing, or even in the same room. I think it's nice if those things are true, but also find value in a "virtual standup" done via email, IM, etc.

I've had useful standups and useless standups. Usually the most useful ones are brief and devoid of status updates.

No.