How it works
Add your team once. Each morning, tap anyone who's away, then deal: the order is shuffled fresh, every order equally likely, except that whoever went first last time won't go first again. That last rule is ours.
Each person gets the same turn, 1:30 by default. That's our arithmetic, not a rule: the Scrum Guide gives the Daily Scrum 15 minutes, and 15 minutes shared by ten people is 1:30 each. When a turn runs out, a soft chime plays and the card turns brass, but nobody is cut off; tap the card to pass when they're done.
Someone missing? "Not here" sends them to the end, and a second time takes them out. Someone late? "Add someone" puts them last.
While a standup runs the page holds when each turn began, so a reload doesn't lose your place. Once it's filed, only its total, how many people spoke and who went first are kept, never anyone's own time. Times come from the clock, so a reload or a background tab doesn't lose them; on a phone, keep the screen on. Your team stays on this device unless you share a link.
Questions people ask
- How long should a daily standup be?
- The Scrum Guide sets the Daily Scrum at 15 minutes for the developers, at the same time and place every working day. Jason Yip notes that 15 minutes "may even be too long for smaller teams", and James Shore suggests a team of ten can finish in about five.
- How long should each person talk?
- There's no official number: the Scrum Guide sets only the 15-minute total. Fifteen minutes shared by ten people, the top of the guide's typical team size, is 1:30 each, which is this timer's default; Jira uses 2 minutes and James Shore finds 30 seconds usually enough.
- What order should people speak in?
- The Scrum Guide leaves the format to the team. A random order dealt fresh each day avoids "who's first?" and keeps people listening, which is Jason Yip's argument for unpredictable orders over round robin.
- Does it record how long each person talked?
- No. Nobody's own time is ever shown after their turn, and when a standup is filed only its total, how many people spoke and who went first are kept, on this device. As Jason Yip puts it, "Measuring for no particular reason leads to suspicion and metrics apathy."
- What were the three standup questions?
- Yesterday, today and impediments came from the 2017 Scrum Guide, which offered them as an example. The 2020 guide removed them; teams choose their own structure.
Sources
- The Scrum Guide 2020 (Daily Scrum)
- Scrum Guide revision history (2020 changes)
- Jason Yip: It's not just standing up, patterns for daily standup meetings
- James Shore: stand-up meetings (The Art of Agile Development)
- Atlassian: run a standup meeting in Jira (2-minute turns)
- Atlassian: stand-up meetings
- Chrome for Developers: timer throttling in Chrome 88