I had another project (two, actually) where we had a &quot;remote standup&quot;, where a couple of the team members were on the opposite coast and dialed in via videochat.  You do lose something.  It works, but it never felt like those teams &quot;gelled&quot; as well as the ones where everyone was in the same office, and the remote workers were often off doing something tangential rather than something core to the project.  One of the points of the standup is to build trust and unity within the team; it&#x27;s harder to do that when you&#x27;re not face-to-face.<p>Also, there&#x27;s nothing that says that standups have to be in the morning.  Most of the teams I&#x27;ve worked on actually had theirs either right after lunch or mid-afternoon.  That accommodated those of us who were late-risers, it let the early-risers get some work in in the morning, and it meant that it&#x27;d often fall during food coma or when energy levels hit a mid-afternoon nadir.