stand a standup meeting or simply standup is a meeting in which attendees typically participate while standing the discomfort of standing for long periods is intended to keep the meetings short notable examples by tradition the privy council of the united kingdom meets standing software development a standup in the computing room some software development methodologies envision daily teammeetings to make commitments to team members the daily commitments allow participants to know about potential challenges as well as to coordinate efforts to resolve difficult andor timeconsuming issues the standup has particular value in agile software development processes such as scrum or kanban but can be utilized in context of any softwaredevelopment methodology the meetings are usually timeboxed to between 5 and 15 minutes and take place with participants standing up to remind people to keep the meeting short and tothepoint the standup meeting is sometimes also referred to as the standup morning rollcall or daily scrum the meeting should take place at the same time and place every working day all team members are encouraged to attend but the meetings are not postponed if some of the team members are not present one of the crucial features is that the meeting is a communication opportunity among team members and not a status update to management or stakeholders team members may sometimes ask for short clarifications and make brief statements such as lets talk about this more after the meeting but the standup does not usually consist of fullfledged discussions three questions scrumstyle standups convene daily to replan inprogress development though it may not be practical to limit all discussion to these three questions the objective is to create a new sprint plan within the time box less than 15 minutes while deferring discussions about impediments until after the event is complete team members briefly a maximum of one minute per team member address three questions as input to this planning what did i do yesterday that helped the development team meet the sprint goal what will i do today to help the development team meet the sprint goal do i see any impediment that prevents me or the development team from meeting the sprint goal whereas kanbanstyle daily standups focus more on what obstacles are impeding my progress looking at the board from right to left what has progressed lean software development five ws a pocket guide for effective standup meetings patterns of daily standup meetings jason yip stand up meetings at wards wiki are your standups awesome article opening communication within a scrum team from methods tools straya viktoria sjberga dag ik dyba tore the daily standup meeting a grounded theory study journal of systems and software 114 20 101124 doi101016jjss201601004 retrieved 20160301 