We use Geekbot for Slack and it's pretty neat!
Would you think they could improve on something? or its just what you need?
Ask HN: Does anyone use online standup tools?
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#32I like https://tatsu.io for slack standup meetings.
oh wow, thats a new one. I am going to check this out. I like the idea that it is in a channel and not a bot directly.
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#33We'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 ;)
geekbot gets a lot of things right. Been using it since forever. I don't know the name of the company but the developers haven't stopped iterating.
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#34I lead a student group. Have a Standuply report setup to run once a week on Slack. Also have Trello. Adoption of both has been tepid. I like the premise of Standuply: the bot interviews everyone (you define the questions) and then publishes a report of all the responses (or lack thereof).
Adoption is what I am curious about. Our teams love the physical presence or on video..
I think adoption has been poor because the pace of work has been slow, even though it shouldn't be -- Trello shows lots to work on. The team isn't afraid to share their accomplishments and thoughts. But they haven't been taking on tasks by their own volition.
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#35I've used a few in combination with conf calls by virtue of being on a few teams with remote workers. In those scenarios they are invaluable. I've never used them when the entire team is in the same room so can't vouch for that.
> Sometimes I see engineers showing up to the standup and having to remember and plan on the go.
Standups are not "iceberg meetings." By having the team prepare for the standup all week you might be discussing things that have been organically solved, or that aren't pertinent to you or the rest of the team. If you care enough about something, you'll remember to bring it up during standup. If you take the old-school 2 hour Monday morning status meeting and call it a standup then you aren't doing standups.
If you need that thorough 2 hour status meeting, abandon agile. Don't put your engineers through the hell of reporting to two status update workflows.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use online standup tools?
#36I like https://tatsu.io for slack standup meetings.
oh wow, thats a new one. I am going to check this out. I like the idea that it is in a channel and not a bot directly.
Thank you!
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We are working on the ability to use both the bot and the channel standups, FWIW.
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#37My previous team was distributed (SF, TX, NY) used Geekbot in slack for standups, 9:30am local time it would prompt you to enter what you did yesterday, what you'll be working today and any blockers.
Geekbot worked good when people put thought into their reports, which was far from always - a lot of the time it'd be "yesterday: wrote code. today: will write code. blockers: everything is awful" which isn't hugely helpful for team synchronisation. That said, it was a lot better than when we tried using hangouts. With Hangouts we kept running into issues like: not socially acceptable for video conferences at desks in the SF office, and the SF people being in a conference room felt a lot more distant than the remotes on their PCs.
Current team is also distributed (same timezones as previous), but we do a highly structured standup in video conference where everyone is on equal footing signed on a workstation (instead of half being in a conf room).
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#38I've used a few in combination with conf calls by virtue of being on a few teams with remote workers. In those scenarios they are invaluable. I've never used them when the entire team is in the same room so can't vouch for that. > Sometimes I see engineers showing up to the standup and having to remember and plan on the go. Standups are not "iceberg meetings." By having the team prepare for the standup all week you m…
Good point. The point is not to prepare for the standup but be ready. WHat I mean is, in order for the standup to be efficient, engineers need to remember and be a little more organized in their thoughts for the benefit of others and making the standup more meaningful for the team.
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#39I found stand-ups problematic. Often they are introduced, because... ...some higher ups have the feeling things aren't going their way. OR ...some people aren't available for questions somehow and you want to pin them down for at least 10min a day to get some information out of them. In both cases the stand-up is just a band-aid for deeper issues like missing or broken processes, Miscommunication or simple that no-on…
Just like anything else, I've seen them done well, but also badly. My current stand-ups last probably 10 mins (never more than 15 mins). It generates questions and discussions that are carried out after the stand-up with a more focused group.
If you aim for "transparency" in your process and company culture, I think stand-ups are not intimidating and are not waste of time.
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#40As a team we use Hangouts for daily standups and it seems to work well for us. I work 40% remote and another team member is 100% remote. Screen sharing for Jira works, although we usually just do straight video.