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We have used Hangouts forever but just started switching to using Slack video calls in a #standup room. The audio and video quality on Slack far exceeds what you get on Google Hangouts. Although we do miss being able to manually dial in a participant that happens to be somewhere that has a spotty data connection. Slack doesn't perform very well in situations where the mobile data is sketchy.
I used this timer: "Scrum Chatter", so that we have an equivalent time to speak... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.rmen.androi...
We're using geekbot for asynchronous daily standups and it works really well, I love it. Fixes the notes problem as well, I check the standup notes when I'm wondering what I planned to do for today ;)
Google Hangouts is what my past few teams have used. Wanting people to put "more thought" into their standup report, however, may be a red flag. An update during standup should be brief, and not result in the standup dragging on and on. No one wants to be there any longer than necessary, and if anything specific needs to be discussed, set aside time for that topic and only for the parties that need to be involved.
Plus an #achievements channel where you make a note of anything you did that was significant (I've also heard this called #whathappened)
I'm doing some consulting on the side (while starting https://getctx.io) and at this client we have a daily physical standup with a video call on Zoom, plus #achievements in Slack.
Google Hangouts is what my past few teams have used. Wanting people to put "more thought" into their standup report, however, may be a red flag. An update during standup should be brief, and not result in the standup dragging on and on. No one wants to be there any longer than necessary, and if anything specific needs to be discussed, set aside time for that topic and only for the parties that need to be involved.
agreed, may be more "thought" is not the right word. But have you been in situations when engineers show up and they are struggling to remember what they did yesterday?