What is Standuply?
Standuply is the #1 assistant for engineering leaders and scrum teams looking to streamline their agile workflow. It automates standup meetings, retrospectives, and over 20 other Agile and HR processes directly inside Slack and Microsoft Teams. Designed for hybrid and remote teams, Standuply helps you replace slow, time-zone-conflicting meetings with fast, asynchronous check-ins using text, voice, or video. The result? Better communication, smarter decisions, and a lot less meeting fatigue.
What are the features of Standuply?
- Automated Standup Meetings: Run daily standups on autopilot with text, voice, or video responses. Use pre-built templates or custom questions and schedule them on any recurring basis.
- Retrospectives on Autopilot: Collect team feedback asynchronously after each sprint. Keep a permanent record of what went well and what needs improvement.
- Backlog Grooming Automation: Connect to Jira, Trello, or Asana to schedule regular checks on outdated tasks and collect team feedback without a formal meeting.
- Planning Poker: Estimate tasks asynchronously before your sprint planning meeting. Standuply collects estimates from everyone and shares the results with the team.
- 360-Degree Feedback: Schedule recurring peer reviews. Standuply interviews selected team members and compiles the results for management review.
- Integrations with Jira, GitHub, & More: Automatically build Agile charts like Burndown and Cumulative Flow Diagrams, pulling data directly from your task trackers.
- Team Polls & Surveys: Run one-time polls or recurring surveys with conditional questions, all from within Slack or Teams.
What are the use cases of Standuply?
- Remote-First Daily Standups: A distributed engineering team uses Standuply for a 10-minute async check-in. Team members reply by text or voice from different time zones, and everyone sees updates first thing in the morning.
- Sprint Retrospectives Without a Meeting: At the end of a sprint, the scrum master schedules an async retro. Team members type or record their thoughts over 24 hours, and Standuply compiles the notes for the next sprint planning session.
- Backlog Cleanup on a Schedule: A product manager connects Standuply to Jira and sets a weekly "backlog check-in." The bot asks the team to review stale tickets and vote on priority, saving hours of grooming meetings.
- Asynchronous Planning Poker: Before sprint planning, developers receive a link to estimate upcoming tasks. They vote on story points at their own pace, and Standuply shows the consensus before the live meeting starts.
- Regular Team Mood Check-Ins: An HR team schedules a weekly "mood check" survey in Slack. Managers use the aggregated data to spot burnout risk early and offer support.
How to use Standuply?
- Set up a daily standup: Choose the "Daily Standup" template. Customize the three questions (e.g., "What did you do yesterday? What will you do today? Any blockers?") and set the schedule for weekdays at 9 AM. Standuply will post the form in your channel automatically.
- Use voice or video messages: When replying to a standup or survey, click the microphone icon to record a quick voice note instead of typing. The bot will attach it to your report.
- Connect your task tracker: Go to the Integrations section and connect Standuply to Jira, Trello, or Asana. This enables backlog grooming and planning poker features.
- Create a 360 review cycle: Navigate to the "360-Degree Feedback" process. Select the participants, set the review questions, and schedule it to run quarterly. Standuply will handle the interviews and email results.
- Run a poll on the fly: In any Slack channel, type
/poll-standuplyfollowed by your question and options. The bot creates an instant poll with results displayed in the channel.
