I'm inclined to agree that Standups can be quite good.
Every morning we have our meeting which maxes out at 15 minutes. The designated note-taker rotates daily and takes the list of current action items to be added to RedMine.
The biggest difficulty was fairly simple actually - removing digression from the mix and also removing things we've completed from the meeting.
There are no side conversations while stuff is being covered, and every day we sum up what we did in a company-wide email. Other subjects happen offline between relevant parties. This has been remarkably effective for us :)
Every morning we have our meeting which maxes out at 15 minutes. The designated note-taker rotates daily and takes the list of current action items to be added to RedMine.
The biggest difficulty was fairly simple actually - removing digression from the mix and also removing things we've completed from the meeting.
There are no side conversations while stuff is being covered, and every day we sum up what we did in a company-wide email. Other subjects happen offline between relevant parties. This has been remarkably effective for us :)