I agree with this. Standups for our team don't replace regular communication, but they do help to focus on what's important: knocking off tasks.
There's the implicit motivation in saying "I got this done!" for the first part, even if it is a review. There's an opportunity to prompt offline discussions when you talk about what you're going to address today.
With regards to "blockers should have been brought up already", of course they should have! The standup, however, is the opportunity to make everyone aware, not just those involved in the blocking issue. Perhaps someone was going to pick tasks today which would have hit that blocker, and can change their plans. Or perhaps someone in another discipline has a solution they now know to bring to you after the meeting.
Summaries are really important, in acedemic papers, technical writing, forum posts (TL;DR), and daily life. Explain to someone what you're about to tell them. Tell them. Explain to them what you just told them.
Sure, I saw you walk up to the board 5 times yesterday, but I was too busy doing my own work to understand the implications. Sure, I know what's still on the burn down list, but are we thinking about taking the same tasks? Glad I now understand that the database problems prevent us from picking up one of the ten widget tasks on the burndown list.
There's the implicit motivation in saying "I got this done!" for the first part, even if it is a review. There's an opportunity to prompt offline discussions when you talk about what you're going to address today.
With regards to "blockers should have been brought up already", of course they should have! The standup, however, is the opportunity to make everyone aware, not just those involved in the blocking issue. Perhaps someone was going to pick tasks today which would have hit that blocker, and can change their plans. Or perhaps someone in another discipline has a solution they now know to bring to you after the meeting.
Summaries are really important, in acedemic papers, technical writing, forum posts (TL;DR), and daily life. Explain to someone what you're about to tell them. Tell them. Explain to them what you just told them.
Sure, I saw you walk up to the board 5 times yesterday, but I was too busy doing my own work to understand the implications. Sure, I know what's still on the burn down list, but are we thinking about taking the same tasks? Glad I now understand that the database problems prevent us from picking up one of the ten widget tasks on the burndown list.