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Daily standup agenda template (15 minutes)

A standup goes long when it turns into status theatre for an audience of one. This 15-minute shape keeps the round moving and gives blockers somewhere to go that isn't the meeting itself. Run it standing up if that helps; run it timeboxed either way.

Topic Minutes Running total
Check-in One line each, or a single shared sentence. Not a status update. 1 1
Yesterday, today, blockers round About 60 seconds a person for a team of eight. Blockers get named here, not solved. 10 11
Parking lot The two or three things that need a smaller conversation, and who owns each. 3 14
Close Confirm who is meeting whom after this, then end. 1 15

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Using BriefMe, create a 15-minute daily standup for a team of eight: a 1-minute check-in, a 10-minute round on yesterday, today and blockers, a 3-minute parking lot, and a 1-minute close.

Questions

How long should a daily standup be?
Fifteen minutes is the usual ceiling, and most teams of five to eight fit comfortably in ten. If you are regularly over fifteen, the round has turned into problem-solving — move that into the parking lot and let two people take it afterwards.
What if someone has nothing to report?
Then they say so and the round moves on. A standup where everyone must produce three sentences rewards narration over signal; the point is to surface blockers and dependencies, not to prove activity.
Do we still need a standup if we are fully async?
Often not daily. Many distributed teams write the same three lines in a channel and keep one short synchronous slot a week for the things that need voices. If you keep the meeting, keep it timeboxed.

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