Standup Alice Blog

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

Every team has two versions of the same Monday morning standup. The boss's version starts with a familiar question: did anyone actually do the thing we talked about last week? The employee's version starts with a slightly different one: do I really have to say, out loud, in front of six people, that I am still working on the thing I said I was working on yesterday? Same meeting. Two completely different headaches. And somehow, everyone still shows up. The Boss's Side: "Did An