Standup Alice has the following benefits:
- Improves the quality of your standup meetings.
- Ensure the right questions get asked.
- Ensure every question gets asked and answered. (You can choose which ones are mandatory or optional)
- Keeps meetings on track. (Less chance of meetings getting off topic when there is a written agenda to go with the verbal updates).
- Ensures that all team members get a chance to participate in Stand ups.
- Even if a team member is not available at the scheduled time, they can post their update with Alice.
- Keeps a written record of what is said during standup meetings.
- Easier for team members who can help clear impediments if they have a written record.
- Provides a way for team members in different time zones to still participate together.
- Scrum masters can focus more on quality of interactions, and less on the tedious nature of keeping track of what was said.
- People come more prepared to your standup meetings.
- By asking them to submit answers in writing prior to the meeting, everyone will be better prepared for this critical team activity.
- Improved communication
- If you have team members with hard to understand accents, or spotty internet connections it will improve your meetings to have written updates to support the verbal commentary.
- Tired of asking "who's next?" while team members look at each other? You can use the order posted in Alice to know who's turn is up next. Simple
- Stuff gets done faster.
- By improving the effectiveness of communication of your team, everything your team does can get done more quickly.