Has anyone here had experience with daily standups done exclusively over Slack (or similar service)?
To me it seems like it would mitigate some of the downsides like people talking too much. And being asynchronous and in written form is a big plus to me. I can just skim through it quickly rather than sit through a monotonous daily meeting.
at one company we did a project wide daily standup on irc. all teams, about 50 people would report all at once at a specific time of day. there was a bot that would track that everyone has reported, and that was it. as a developer i would look at the report log to see if anyone was touching issues that i was working on, and if so possibly talk to that person later to see if there was anything we needed to coordinate. likewise i'd look if anyone reported blockers where i could help.
Forcing introverts to get out of the comfort zone and talk to each other has lots of benefits.
Async Slack gives everyone the opportunity to tune out, which they definitely will.
A blocker can be resolved either on the standup or during a quick follow-up call that happens right after. Going async risks that the same blocker will be resolved in 1-2 days.
To me it seems like it would mitigate some of the downsides like people talking too much. And being asynchronous and in written form is a big plus to me. I can just skim through it quickly rather than sit through a monotonous daily meeting.