Daily standups should be async
I think if your standup can be async, then it's ineffective, and you should get rid of it. And to be clear, that's fine! Not every team needs standups.The only value in a standup is when team members actually share ideas about what they're working on. The detailed conversation happens outside the standup, but the purpose of the standup is just to get that moment of "I know about that, let's talk".In that case, having everyone in a room (real or virtual) at the same time is more efficient than asynchronous updates. With asynchronous updates, people are in meetings, in the bathroom, not online yet, etc, and you have higher coordination costs.I've been on teams that have effective standups, and teams that have worthless ones. I know what each one looks like. But for the life of me, what I can't figure out is why some teams have good ones, and some don't.