My team's "Scrum" daily stand-up meeting lasts for 1 hour. We spend the first 30 minutes listening to the Product Owner's "updates"

There is a long twitter discussion about how creative coding work turns out to be digital factory, but they still missed the pseudo-military aspect now that I think about it. While we have no guns, no uniforms, and don't need to stand to attention in a physical way, there is hierarchy and a mentality of don't question the CEO / founder / team lead in many companies, no matter big or small.

https://twitter.com/kyleshevlin/...

Now I'm self-employed, but when I join corporate projects as a freelancer, I am often expected to join their daily standup / status morning meetings at least remotely which still feels like adding no value except acknowledging someone's authority.

How do they have enough relevant material to talk about for half an hour every day....? I mean.. How???

@netikras maybe everyone has to tell a story about a tricky bug they managed to fix which took several hours longer than expected, whether made up or not

@fraktalisman western militaries have feedback chains.

Read it many times. PO must not participate in daily scrum.

https://theserverside.com/blog/...

I think some Atlassian sources even state that just the presence of a PO can easily turn it in a status meeting and advice to keep them away.