• Standups should be about steering, not a status meeting.
• Automate status reports for standups, since they’re not inspiring. 
• Instead have meetings with everyone everyday to ask, what is the best day that we can possibly have? 
• You should be pumped after your standup. 
• There’s a human element of syncing everyday.
• If you had a bad day, this is where you lean on the team. 
• It’s not a status or policing session. 
• I know you’ve been working on CSS for weeks, and you’re going to continue doing it.
• As a manager, you are coaching. 
• Gauge the energy. Make adjustments accordingly.
• Example team
• Morning: status meeting
• Afternoon: product standup
• PM asks: what new toys do I have to play with today?
• What about standup bots?
• Use it for asynchronous status updates.
• Manager can notice if people are working on similar areas. Get them together.
• Team Drift: Delay in feedback.
• How do we get rid of this uncertainty?

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