[mmattax]

I managed a small team of engineers and synchronous daily standups just broke down with remote teams and timezones.

It also just felt unproductive - it became something we did to feel like we had "best practices" when in reality it was a waste of everyone's time.

I got the sense that everyone would essentially forget what they said/heard at the end of the meeting (or was simply tuned out).

I ended up launching a tool to solve this problem: (https://jell.com).

We're a lot happier showing a "todo list" with each other and still have a place to write out the challenges/progress we're making - all while respecting each others time.

[douche]

You don't need to be remote or across timezones for this to happen. I can't help but feel that standups are a huge waste of time. If it is a thing that really needs to be done, why not do it asynchronously in a slack channel when you show up, rather than interrupting everybody and wasting a collective work-day across the team every day in lost flow time, by doing it synchronously at some always-inconvenient time?