[antonp]

What are your thoughts on daily stand-ups and scrums with fully remote teams with different chronotypes. Does that work for you guys?

[lordnacho]

We just have a bot that asks you when you wake up what you're up to.

It's mainly so I know what I'm interrupting if I start writing to someone, but everyone can look in the bot's channel for the same purpose.

As for everyone being on different times, it's not a problem. There's always someone you can talk to, and you know what everyone else is doing. Plus there's a chat history for every project, and cards for every outstanding issue.

[RA_Fisher]

Same at my company. We funnel the artifacts of our work, like commit messages, to a particular Slack channel. Then my manager reads off the Slack channel. They use Zapier (I'm biased, I'm a Zapien) to automate and collate the channel.

[GordonS]

That's a really interesting approach to the daily stand-up!

I've never heard of this before, but I'm going to give it a go on my next project - would he interested to hear if anyone else has tried this?

[paulie_a]

Am I the only one that thinks stand-ups are pretty much worthless? We have two versions, in person once a week. Then a daily slack version. Recently I asked in a real stand-up "does anyone actually read them", 2 out of 25 hands went up. I was surprised by people being so candid that they don't. I don't, it's generally irrelevant. It's a waste of time.

Interpersonal direct communication and making sure the appropriate people are kept in the loop is far more efficient. Otherwise it becomes a bunch of meaningless chatter.

[nilkn]

The Slack versions are probably for the manager more than the individual engineers on the team. If you can't even give your manager a quick update on what you're working on, I think there's a problem. And there's no reason to hide that information from your teammates, so you might as well share it. Boom -- standup.

[fjsolwmv]

Updating status is beneficial for the individual and the senior engineers.