One standup, start to finish
A Tuesday, with Align in the room
Four people, one standup on Google Meet, a Jira project and a GitHub repo. Here is what Align does with it, and what it never does without asking.
1Tuesday · 9:30
The standup happens where it always has
Google Meet, Teams or Zoom. One person presses Start on the free extension and Align reads the captions. No bot joins, nothing to admit, nothing for IT to allow. It notes who said they'd do what while people talk.
2Tuesday · 9:46
Everyone’s tickets, drafted
Each person finds their tickets waiting: new ones, and updates to the ones they already own. Keep, edit or drop. Accepted tickets land in Jira or Linear, two-way, every field.
3Tuesday to Thursday
The code moves them
A branch moves the ticket to In progress, a pull request to In review, a merge to Done. Each move waits for a one-click OK until you turn on auto. Nobody drags a card again.
4Wednesday · 9:20
Tomorrow’s standup, already written
Before anyone joins, each person's update is drafted from their tickets, commits and pull requests, with what's blocked called out. Post it to Slack, or read it and skip the meeting.