When should you recommend daily stand-ups?

In remote teams, and especially open source it's difficult to keep track of what everyone is doing and where they are with things. Sometimes we forget to ask for help, or feedback because we're just stuck in our own problem solving. This limits the amount of collaboration, knowledge share, and can make things feel impersonal.

I was trying to think of why this is the case, I think people working in tech tend to go to their own corners, and hide away until they have reached perfection. Or at least when a deadline is near.

This might be a little less for developers who tend to work in the open on GitHub more, but other fields don't have such sophisticated tools, or culture for working in public. One way that gets recommended to address these problems are daily stand-ups. Here's a definition from Atlassian.

The daily stand-up is a short, daily meeting to discuss progress and identify blockers. The reason it’s called a “stand-up” is because if attendees participate while standing, the meeting should be kept short.

I've found daily stand-ups are really useful for my own teams @peakshift, we do them asynchronous using the PPP reporting style. Would love to learn about what other janitors think about it!