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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 answers on their...

Every team that runs a live standup has said it at some point: it's only 15 minutes. Then it runs 25. Then 30. Nobody planned for that and nobody tracks it, so the extra time never shows up anywhere except in the work that didn't get done. The cost of live standup meetings is bigger than the calendar shows. A live standup asks everyone to stop at the same moment and then do their prep work out loud while the rest of the team waits. Here's where the time goes and how to get it back. Where a...

Pick a time for your daily standup and you've made a choice you probably didn't mean to make. You've decided whose day it fits and whose day it interrupts. On a team in one office, that choice is invisible. On a distributed team, it's the whole problem. The math nobody runs Say your team spans San Francisco, Berlin, and Bangalore. A 9 a.m. standup in San Francisco is 6 p.m. in Berlin and 9:30 p.m. in Bangalore. Your Berlin engineer is closing her laptop. Your Bangalore lead is dialing in from...