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Standup timer

Keep the daily standup to its 15 minutes

Give every person the same slice of time, run the rotation in order, and let the clock rather than a person be the one that says time is up.

Meeting total0:00 / 15:00

Ready when you are

0 present

Every person gets 1:30. With 0 people that is 0:00 of talking, inside a 15 minute cap.

Add a few names to the roster to get started.

Roster

The roster is shared with Who's Next, so names you add here show up there too.

Absences apply to this session only. The saved roster keeps everyone.

Settings

With auto-advance off the clock keeps counting past the slot in amber until someone hits next.

Why the timer helps

Rotating speakers against a visible timer is what keeps a standup at 15 minutes. Nobody has to interrupt anybody, because the clock does it.

The point of the meeting is starting the day together, not status theater for a manager. Anything that needs discussion gets parked for after, with only the people it concerns.

How to use it

Type the team into the roster once. It is saved in this browser and shared with Who's Next, so you only ever keep one list. Before you start, mark whoever is out today as absent, which drops them from the rotation without deleting them.

Set the seconds per speaker from the size of the team rather than from a habit. Take your cap, subtract a couple of minutes for the joining and the handoffs, and divide by the number of people speaking. Six people inside 15 minutes lands close to the 90 second default. Ten people means either 60 seconds each or a smaller meeting.

During the run the ring counts down for the current speaker and the bar at the top counts the whole meeting against the cap. A beep at 10 seconds gives people a chance to land their last sentence, and the second beep marks the end of the slot. Going over turns the clock amber rather than cutting anyone off. That is the moment to say you will pick it up after standup.

Use next speaker as the handoff. It records what the person actually took, so the wrap-up shows where the time went. If the same name runs long every day, the problem is not the timer, it is that their update wants to be a conversation. Move it to a follow-up and standup gets its minutes back.

Frequently asked questions

How many seconds should each person get?

Divide your cap by the number of people speaking, then take a little off for handoffs. For a 15 minute cap that is about 90 seconds for six people, or 60 seconds for ten. If the numbers only work at 30 seconds each, the meeting has too many people in it.

What happens when someone runs over?

The countdown keeps going and turns amber, with a beep at the moment the slot ends. Nothing stops the speaker. With auto-advance on the timer moves to the next person by itself; with it off you decide when to hand over.

Is the roster shared with the other team tools?

Yes. The names are stored in this browser under one key that Who's Next reads and writes too, so editing the list in either place updates both. Nothing is sent to a server, and other people on your team have their own copy.

Should the order change every day?

Rotating helps. In a fixed order the same person always warms up the room and the last person always speaks to a group that is checking the clock. Switch the order setting to shuffled, or shuffle the saved list so tomorrow starts with whoever went second today.

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