How Standup Alice Works

Standup Alice automates daily standups by collecting responses from team members and delivering summaries to your Slack channel or other team members. Here’s how Alice works:

  1. Choose a Slack Channel: Select the channel where your team’s daily standup will take place.
  2. Select Participants: Decide who will participate in the standup.
  3. Customize Questions: Use common templates or create your own standup questions.
  4. Schedule the Standup: Set the time and days for your standup. Alice will remind participants about an hour before the scheduled time.

Once configured, Alice handles reminders, collects responses, and posts summaries automatically.

How to Add Standup Alice to Slack

Follow these steps to add Standup Alice to your Slack Workspace

  1. First, you need to add Alice to your Slack Workspace. You can do so by clicking on the "Add to Slack" button listed below, or visiting https://app.standupalice.com/login and selecting the Slack icon that says "Login With Slack".
    2. You will be directed to login and grant permissions for Alice to be added to your workspace, you can review the permissions set here
  2. After granting access to Alice, you will be taken to the dashboard of your account where you can view and manage all standups through Standup Alice in your workspace.


How to Create A Standup 

After adding Alice to Slack and signing into the dashboard view of the app Standup Alice, you can add or edit standups inside of your workspace.

  1. Click on "Create a Standup" in the upper right hand corner of the screen
  2. Select a template you would like to use, or to create your own custom standup, click "Build Your Own"
    1. You do not have to select "Build Your Own" in order to customize the order or phrasing of questions. Templates can be used as a guide to create a standup.
  3. Name your standup 
  4. Select which channel you would like this particular standup to be used inside of
  5. Add members from your workspace by typing their name, or selecting them from the drop down menu in the section that says "Who attends"
    1. You can select all members in the selected channel (and daily auto-update) or invite one by one.
  6. To edit, change, or modify any of the questions in the standup, select the "Questions" tab at the top of the screen. 
  7. To edit, change, or modify the schedule of when the standup is sent out, select the "Schedule" tab at the top of the screen.
    1. Timezone: select the timezone of your team. If your team members live in different timezones and multi-timezones is enabled, this setting uses for members who doesn't select their timezones.
    2. Which days in a week do you want to organize a standup?: days that the standup will be held.
    3. What's the best time to post stand-up report: time that Alice sends standup summary.
    4. Alice reminds each participants: Alice sends the first reminder with a question to ask team members to enter his/her standup. Usually, it happens 1 hours before the post time. You can select a value from the dropdown.
  8. To review and edit advanced settings, select on the "Advanced" tab at the top of the screen.
    1. Multi-timezones: If enabled, Alice reminds team members in their own timezones and sends separated summary for each timezone. This option is recommended for multi-timezone teams.
    2. Thread conversation: If enabled, Alice creates a thread for each day and send standup summary into the thread. If you team is big, the summary is usually long and people need to scroll up and down to read. This option is helpful to avoid that issue. Recommended for team of 6+ members.
    3. Async report delivery: If enabled, summary is sent as soon as a team member completed his/her standup. 
    4. No Slack @here mention: If disabled, no @here mention in summary when sending to channels.
    5. Report format
      • Group by question (default): summary grouped by questions
      • Group by user: summary grouped by users
    6. Also deliver report to following emails: standup summaries will send to selected emails, useful for users who are not in Slack, but want to read the summaries.
    7. Also deliver reports to following channels: standup summaries will send to other channels, useful for other teams who want to know what happens on this team
  9. Once you are satisfied with the set-up process, select the "Save" button at the top right hand side of the screen.


Watch The Setup Video Here:




Delete a standup

Click on "Delete" in a standup to modify a standup settings. A confirmation dialog will ask you to confirm the deletion. If you decide to delete, conversation and other data from this standup will be also deleted.