Standups Are Stupid, Do This Instead

Peter Christian Fraedrich
3 min readApr 24, 2024
Photo by Ben Sweet on Unsplash

Standups are stupid. Can we all agree on that? Fifteen seconds per-person to talk about what you worked on the previous day, what you’re working on today, and if you have any blockers is pretty insane when you think about it for more than 2 seconds. Half the time I don’t know what I’m working on today because today hasn’t happened yet and this industry is unpredictable. Yet we take the time to stand around and pretend that…

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Peter Christian Fraedrich

Entrepreneur, software developer, writer, musician, amateur luthier, husband, dad. All opinions are my own.