Standups your team answers when its day starts
Written standups that open at your team’s local time, with replies, reactions and the answers emailed when they end. No meeting needed.
The daily standup was designed for a team in one room. For teams across time zones, with different holidays and different working hours, fifteen minutes at 9:30 often means someone joining at dawn, someone at dinner, and someone missing it. A written standup asks the same questions, and everyone answers when their own day starts. Why write it down
How standups work in Scrums
- They open by themselves. Set the days, the time and the question once in Team settings → Daily standup. The standup opens at that local time in the team's timezone, and stays at that local time when the clocks change.
- Answer in your own time. Use
- for bullet points and paste links freely. - Talk to each other. Teammates reply to and react to each other's answers, and you can see who is writing and who hasn't answered yet.
- Nothing gets lost. When the standup ends, everyone who took part gets all the answers by email. The next scheduled standup closes the one before it.
- Or start one now. New session → Standup starts one whenever you need it.
Why teams switch to written standups
- Time zones and holidays stop mattering. People answer at the start of their own day.
- It's a record. Yesterday's answers are still there tomorrow, for anyone back from a day off.
- Blockers get answered sooner. Whoever knows the answer can reply straight away, without waiting for tomorrow's meeting.
- It's shorter. Writing three lines takes two minutes; listening to eight people takes fifteen.
Many teams keep a short call once or twice a week and write the rest. Scrums has calls built in for that too.
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Questions
Does everyone get a notification when the standup opens?
People who've chosen email reminders in their settings get an email when their team's scheduled standup opens.
What happens when the clocks change?
Nothing you need to do: the standup opens at the same local time in the team's timezone all year round.
Is it free?
Yes. Standups, like every other feature, are free for your whole team.