Async daily standup in three lines
The classic three questions, written in under a minute instead of spoken in fifteen.
Every working day, before your team’s cut-off time
The three lines
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Done
What did you finish since your last blip?
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Next
What is the one thing you are doing next?
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Blocked
What is in your way? Leave empty if nothing.
Each line: 80 characters at most.
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Done: Next: Blocked:
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An example daily standup blip
- Done Shipped the invoice export, CSV and PDF
- Next Starting the refund flow
- Blocked Need the payment sandbox keys from finance
A written sample, not a real team's update.
Questions
What is an async daily standup?
It is a standup without the meeting. Each person writes a short update when their day starts, and the team reads the updates instead of gathering on a call.
What should an async standup update include?
Three things: what you finished, what you are doing next, and anything blocking you. In a blip each one is a single line of at most 80 characters.
Can I use this template without tblip?
Yes. The copy button on this page gives you plain text that works in any chat tool or document. tblip itself is still in development.
tblip is in development. The template above works without it.