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Standups aren't only for your developers. Your marketing, sales, support, and ops people move work forward every day too, and they need a way to share it without another meeting. Standup Alice can run a standup for every one of those teams. The last thing anyone needs is another meeting. Microsoft's 2025 Work Trend Index found employees are interrupted every two minutes during core work hours, 275 times a day, by meetings, emails, or chats. A written standup that each person

Yesterday. Today. Blockers. If your team has run a standup for more than a month, you could probably answer all three in your sleep, which is sort of the problem. The questions stopped asking anything. They just collect a status report nobody reads twice. Good daily standup questions do more than that. They surface the blocker someone was about to bury. They catch the decision nobody agreed on. Once in a while, they even make the standup a little fun. Here are 20 worth steali

Most teams today are not suffering from too little communication. They are drowning in it. Messages in Slack. Emails. Status update meetings. Follow-up messages about the status update meeting. Notifications from four different tools, all telling you something that someone else on the team already knew. And yet somehow, at the end of the week, important things still got missed. Blockers went unresolved. Someone did not know a decision had been made. Two people worked on the s

There's a growing argument floating around Agile circles that goes something like this: async standups quietly erode team morale, isolate people from real-time context, and trade genuine collaboration for the illusion of productivity. It's a fair concern to raise. It's also missing the actual cause. Teams don't lose morale because updates happen asynchronously. They lose morale when async becomes a synonym for disconnected. Those are two very different things, and the differe

Teams that already use Slack often try to improve their daily communication without adding another platform. One of the first tools they explore is Slack Workflow Builder. It feels like the natural place to start because it already lives inside Slack. But many teams eventually ask a bigger question: Should we continue building our own workflow inside Slack, or use a purpose-built tool like Standup Alice instead? That is why more leaders are comparing: Slack Workflow Builder v