Rethinking the Agile Standup in the age of Slack

We can leverage emerging communication channels to improve communication and focus live meetings on tasks that can only be done well in live meetings.
The Scrum standup was created 15 years ago as part of the Agile revolution. One of the core practices is the daily standup where the team identifies the work for the current day and any impediments or blockers in order to remove them as quickly as possible.
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- What will be done today.
- What was done yesterday.
- What is in their way today.
The reality is that teams use the standup for additional purposes or create additional meetings. We want to handle these other necessary tasks without creating more meetings.

We should split the standup. Working on today and worked on yesterday should be posted to Slack. Complications and blockers should also be posted to slack so that everyone on the team can see then.
Problem resolution and corporate communication be part of the
Standup The Scrum meeting can then be used for other team functions and for problem solving.
- Part 1 is the standup.
- Part 2 is where problems are solved.
Option B has been adopted by many organizations, especially if they roll up reports or metrics to higher levels of management. Stories need to be examined and updated during the sprint.
Many teams actually run a mix of Option A and Option B standups. Doing this during some portion of the weekly standups is very common.


We want to make effective use of the full team's attention in these high-frequency meetings. The goal is to resolve problems sooner, increasing velocity.
- Tasks should include work items where available.
- Meetings should be included if work changing decisions are possible.
- Work done yesterday should only be described if it affects others or changes previous decisions.
Slack / Stand-up Breakdown
This slide shows one way of splitting and re-targeting the standup.
# team-standup
The slack channel used for people's actions and blockers
Standup Meeting
A reduced schedule of meetings where the team either walk through the backlog or handles corporate and team logistics.
#team
The team Slack for everything not related to standup activities. Troubleshooting , blocker traffic, and other work shows up here.
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