What is a stand-up?
A stand-up (or daily stand-up) is a brief, time-boxed meeting - typically 15 minutes or less - where each team member answers three questions: what they did yesterday, what they plan to do today, and whether anything is blocking them. The format was popularized by Scrum as the "Daily Scrum," but it has been widely adopted by kanban, XP, and general agile teams. The name comes from the practice of standing during the meeting to keep it short.
Why stand-ups matter
Stand-ups exist to surface blockers early and keep the team aligned. Without regular synchronization, teammates often work in isolation, duplicate effort, or wait days before mentioning they are stuck. A 15-minute daily check-in catches these problems while they are still small enough to fix quickly.
For remote and distributed teams, stand-ups are especially valuable because there is no hallway conversation to fill the gap. Many remote teams run asynchronous stand-ups - posting updates in a shared channel - to accommodate time zones while preserving the benefits of daily visibility. See async work for more on this approach.
The key to an effective stand-up is discipline. It should not become a status report to a manager, a design discussion, or a debugging session. Those conversations happen offline. The stand-up's only job is to identify what needs attention and who needs help.
How Flux supports stand-ups
Flux's real-time board serves as a natural visual anchor for stand-ups. Team members walk through the board's columns during the meeting - cards in progress, cards blocked, cards ready for review - so the discussion stays concrete. Because the board updates live via SSE, everyone sees the same state regardless of whether they are in the same room.
For async stand-ups, the activity log gives a timestamped feed of what changed since the last check-in. Team members can review recent card moves, comments, and completions instead of waiting for a synchronous meeting, making it easy to run stand-ups across time zones.
Related terms
See also: Scrum, Async work, Kanban board.