Scheduled Standups vs Async Standups
Developers should use Scheduled Standups to maintain team cohesion, quickly identify and resolve blockers, and ensure everyone is aligned on project goals, especially in fast-paced agile environments meets developers should use async standups when working in remote or hybrid teams, especially across multiple time zones, to minimize disruptions and increase flexibility while maintaining transparency. Here's our take.
Scheduled Standups
Developers should use Scheduled Standups to maintain team cohesion, quickly identify and resolve blockers, and ensure everyone is aligned on project goals, especially in fast-paced agile environments
Scheduled Standups
Nice PickDevelopers should use Scheduled Standups to maintain team cohesion, quickly identify and resolve blockers, and ensure everyone is aligned on project goals, especially in fast-paced agile environments
Pros
- +They are essential for distributed or remote teams to foster regular communication and prevent silos, and they help in tracking sprint progress and adapting plans dynamically based on daily updates
- +Related to: scrum, kanban
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
Async Standups
Developers should use async standups when working in remote or hybrid teams, especially across multiple time zones, to minimize disruptions and increase flexibility while maintaining transparency
Pros
- +They are ideal for reducing meeting overhead, allowing deep work periods, and providing a written record of updates that can be referenced later
- +Related to: agile-methodology, remote-work
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
The Verdict
Use Scheduled Standups if: You want they are essential for distributed or remote teams to foster regular communication and prevent silos, and they help in tracking sprint progress and adapting plans dynamically based on daily updates and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.
Use Async Standups if: You prioritize they are ideal for reducing meeting overhead, allowing deep work periods, and providing a written record of updates that can be referenced later over what Scheduled Standups offers.
Developers should use Scheduled Standups to maintain team cohesion, quickly identify and resolve blockers, and ensure everyone is aligned on project goals, especially in fast-paced agile environments
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