{"id":1073,"date":"2014-02-10T16:05:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-mondaycomblog.kinsta.cloud\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2026-08-30T03:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T08:37:49","slug":"standup-meetings-done-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monday.com\/blog\/rnd\/standup-meetings-done-right\/","title":{"rendered":"How to manage a productive stand-up meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Stand-up meeting’s been around for a while. The idea of having a meeting standing up, is to make people less comfortable\u00a0to talk at length. This, in turn, should lead to short and to the point meetings. The common structure of the stand-up meeting is going around and letting each team member briefly update on what they did yesterday, are about to do today and most importantly — where they are stuck.<\/p>\n

The Problem with Stand-Up Meetings<\/p>\n

I’ve been a long time participant in such meetings; these have some good things and some bad things going for them. Here they are:<\/p>\n

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Stand-up is good for<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

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Stand-up is bad\u00a0for<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Giving everyone a chance to talk.<\/td>\nSeeing the BIG PICTURE. You can’t get the big picture from discussing\u00a0low-level daily tasks.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Getting everyone together on a daily basis.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Creating a feeling of togetherness.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Syncing everyone to what everyone else is doing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What is the Big Picture?<\/h2>\n

The Big Picture is comprised of the high-level goals you wish to achieve. For example: When creating a product, high-level goals are the features that are important improvements on the product. Alternately,\u00a0high-level goals can also be a conference you plan to present at or some big business development you’re working on.<\/p>\n

Sharing the BIG PICTURE with your team is the best way you’ll get them to help. If you limit their knowledge to what you think they should do, rather than sharing it with them – you’re essentially limiting your company’s intelligence. Not sharing the BIG PICTURE means you decide who needs to know what and what they should do – you’re not harnessing everyone’s intelligence to help achieve the bigger goals.<\/p>\n

Sharing the BIG PICTURE with your team empowers them, It lets them feel they know why they are working on what they were asked to and how their work matters.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Big Picture and Stand-Up Meetings<\/h2>\n

At monday.com, we’ve changed the way we do stand-up meetings. We no longer talk about the low-level stuff everyone has to do.\u00a0You can call it dog-fooding our product but it came as a necessity to share what we’re trying to achieve with the whole team.
\nEvery day, we have a morning gathering, open the big screen and look at our high-level objectives. WE GO OVER GOAL AFTER GOAL,\u00a0and not person by person.\u00a0Each person who’s in charge of a high-level objective, talks about what has been done to promote it yesterday and what’s going to be done today – It’s also a perfect place to talk about if it’s stuck or not and unlike the regular standup where people don’t share that they are stuck (although you want them to), when you talk about objectives there is no problem admitting it’s stuck. This is what we gained by talking about high-level goals, rather than people’s daily tasks.<\/p>\n