It’s good to hear that stand-up culture appears to work for some. Personally, I have never worked anywhere where I extracted even the least bit of useful information from one. Every single one has been a complete waste of my time. The worst ones actually cost me motivation and concentration.

Every single one happened because the project manager wanted it or the lead programmer (who, for all intents and purposes, was a manager at that point) used it as a daily status meeting. At its most absurd, at one company, it took 30 minutes or more, on a daily basis, to listen to inconsequential (to me) stuff. To say my line took less than a minute on most days and the others almost always used this meeting to start discussions that needed to be shut down. Which of course lead to more meetings.