A few jobs back the director was having daily standups with the whole dev team for 60-90 minutes and sometimes longer.

The goal was to figure out why the project was behind schedule... yeah.

Keeping the meeting short was the whole point of them being "standups" (as opposed to "sit-downs") in the first place!

Frankly, even 10 minutes is excessive: it means either people are talking too much or your team is too big.

I'm fucking sick and tired of cargo-cult managers adopting the trappings of agile without understanding WTF they're for.

My stand-ups are at 10 am (11 am for most of the team), last between 3 and 15 minutes depending on how many of the 7 of us show up and how much everyone has to say, then we all go back to what we're doing. My project manager and boss both care about the work that gets done rather than monitoring us to make sure we're working the entire time, and we actually get reasonable (even generous) timelines for most things unless it's something super important.

I love my job.

Ha, I could not be more the opposite. I want to be 75% done with my day by 1pm. I’d rather them be at 8am