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Standup Timer — Keep Daily Standups Short
The easiest way to keep a daily standup to ten minutes is a countdown everyone can see. Set the length, drop the link in your team channel, and project it during the call.
Change the countdown
How to actually keep a standup short
Standups overrun for one reason: nobody can see the time, so nobody self-regulates. Making the countdown visible to the whole team — projected on the call, or pasted into the channel — shifts that. People wrap their update as the number drops, because the pressure is coming from a shared fact rather than from someone playing timekeeper.
A simple rule of thumb: for a team of six aiming at ten minutes, that's roughly a minute each with a little slack for the shared stuff. If you're halfway down the clock with more than half the team still to go, that's the signal to park the deep-dives — "let's take that offline" — and keep the round moving. The blockers are what standup is for; the debugging session it uncovers belongs in a smaller follow-up, not in front of everyone.
Common questions
- You can pin it, but remember each link is tied to a specific end time — for a genuinely reusable daily habit, it's quickest to hit the same quick-timer button each morning and share that day's fresh link.
- No — anyone with the link can open it on their own device, whether they're in a video call, in the office, or just watching from a browser tab.
- Yes — the deadline is one shared instant regardless of device or location, so remote and in-office teammates see identical time remaining.