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Justin L Beall • Edited

In collocated teams, stand-ups should not be as necessary for social interaction and brief as work should be visible on a physical or digital board.

In distributed teams, having a daily meeting where you see everyone's face is powerful. Check out Jurgen Appelo's views on this topic.

“Daily Meetings with Remote Teams (Stand-ups Don’t Work, But Daily Cafes Do)” @jurgenappelo blog.agilityscales.com/daily-meeti...

At my company, which is entirely remote, participants typically show up a few minutes early to our video meetings (including 9am standup) so we can talk about what's going on personally (sometimes politics) with each other. This is important, as a majority of our communication is through Slack.