Record the demo, skip the meeting
2026-10-28 · The Scrums team
Not every update needs a meeting. A few minutes of screen recording, watched when people have time, often says more than half an hour on a call, and it's still there next week.
Some meetings exist only because something needs showing: a new feature, a design to look over, a walkthrough of a tricky bit of code, how to use the new deploy script. Everyone has to be free at the same time, half of them are in the wrong time zone, and a week later the people who missed it ask for a repeat.
A short recording does the same job better for a lot of these. People watch it when they're ready, at their own speed, and pause on the part that matters to them. Nobody's calendar has to give way, and it's still there for whoever joins the team next month.
When a recording beats a meeting
- Demos and walkthroughs, where one person is showing and everyone else is watching.
- Explaining a decision, with the context people will want later.
- Onboarding, for the things every new person needs shown once.
- Bug reports, where "here's what happens when I click this" says more than three paragraphs.
Meetings are still better for decisions, disagreements and anything that needs back-and-forth. The trick is knowing which one you need.
Recordings in Scrums
Type /record on any page in Scrums and record right there:
- Your screen with your camera in a corner bubble, just your screen, or just your camera, with your microphone and the sound of a shared tab.
- A three-second countdown, then pause and resume, Restart to try again, and Finish and save when you're done. The recording carries on while you move around the app.
- In Chrome and Edge, the controls can pop out into a small window that stays on top of your other apps.
- The video sits on the page, next to the notes it belongs with, and anyone who can open the page can watch it and comment.
Record on the page, next to the notes it belongs with.
There's nothing to install, and recordings never go to an outside service: they're stored with the page, and served only to people who can open it.
Sign up and record your next demo instead of booking a meeting for it.
More on team docs and recordings in Scrums.