Standup Alice Blog

You know the sound. Ding. Someone posted an update. Or a question. Or a reaction to a reaction. Or a GIF that is technically work-adjacent. By the time you've caught up on the thread, you've lost the thing you were actually doing, and there are four more unread messages in two other channels. This is the reality of Slack notification overload for most modern teams, and it has nothing to do with how hard people are working. It has everything to do with asking one tool to do a

Let's be honest. The daily standup had a great pitch. Fifteen minutes. Keep it short. Stay aligned. Ship faster. And then reality showed up. Somewhere between the person who treats every standup as a TED Talk and the one who clearly forgot it was happening, the fifteen minutes became thirty, the blockers went unresolved, and half the team stopped paying attention by minute four. It's not that standups are a bad idea. It's that the live meeting format was never really built fo