When I was on a team that caught the agile flu and wanted to experience the standup fever, it soon became very confusing to the team to know when communication should occur.
What was naturally communicated throughout the day became bottled up for standup. "Taken advantage" suggests nefarious intent, but I expect in a lot of cases it was simply because people have no idea what purpose standups serve if they otherwise communicate normally.
And since standup advocates suggest that people should be called upon to say their piece, there is even more incentive to save up something in order to have something to say. "I'm afraid I have no new information to share" every day gets old very quickly. I know first hand, because that's exactly what we were left with when we tried to also communicate outside of standups.
We currently have a problem with outdated information in tickets. Keeping such tickets up to date requires a bit of discipline that involves adding in information as soon as it becomes available.
These updates are almost always provided during the stand-up; when not provided, they're forgotten.
What was naturally communicated throughout the day became bottled up for standup. "Taken advantage" suggests nefarious intent, but I expect in a lot of cases it was simply because people have no idea what purpose standups serve if they otherwise communicate normally.
And since standup advocates suggest that people should be called upon to say their piece, there is even more incentive to save up something in order to have something to say. "I'm afraid I have no new information to share" every day gets old very quickly. I know first hand, because that's exactly what we were left with when we tried to also communicate outside of standups.