The "Gold standard" standup meeting?

During a meeting I facilitated this week, a manager stated "you need to attend the gold standard standup that one of my scrum masters run. We visited and were so impressed by her that we'd like our scrums to follow that patter."
     Enter irritation. "Why the irritation Brian?" Was it ego? I'd been running stand up meetings for years and I thought they were good. But, I can always learn something from someone else. So, there was that; ego. But there was also the "gold standard" comment that kept bothering me. So I went to the gold standard standup yesterday and I could see why management liked it. It ended in 14 minutes. The scrum master / tech lead sat at her desk updating the hours remaining in the tracking tool on behalf of the team. It was efficient. I learned a few things.
      But my team is different. We are twice the size of her team with three times the tasks. I also believe that the entire team can share the pain (RTC) or joy (Rally) of updating the tool on their own time. I see the daily standup / scrum meeting as a framework. The agile founders were looking for something very simple in that meeting. For the committed work, we just need a 24 hour check point where we want to know how the work progressed, how it will progress, and if anything is blocking its progression. On top of that, the team brings its own spice into the mix. We have disco lights and music to welcome the team as they walk in. Every day we end with a 1,2,3, clap, but on Tuesdays we end with a 1,2,3 fake laugh. Thursdays are Indian music day so when the team enter, many of whom are from India, they hear the sounds of home*. We laugh a lot. It's the one meeting where we get to see each other and we better have fun. This is our standard that we've collectively built, but could never be repeated by another team. It's gold to us.


* So, to be completely transparent, one out of five times they hear the "sounds of home". The other four times they walk in with a grin. I know that grin. It's the "this is what happens when the Irish guy picks the Indian music" grin.