How does the standup help ensure nothing is missed? Everything is raised actively by individuals. They could have done the same thing through async modes of communication.

Compare this to a weekly progress update meeting that will usually have your project tracker, or Kanban board, or whatever up there so you can actually identify things that may have dropped off everyone’s radars.

> Everything is raised actively by individuals. They could have done the same thing through async modes of communication.

Because this doesn’t happen in the real world. People forget to mention things, they get their heads stuck in rabbit holes. A task that’s blocked just withers and dies because nobody actively looks at it. A good standup forces these things to be raised and addressed.

> Compare this to a weekly progress update meeting

The progress meeting is daily, not weekly.