Pick the next person without picking favourites

Add the team to the roster once. It is saved in this browser and shared with the standup timer, so both tools work from the same list. Remove anyone who is gone for good; for a one-day absence it is easier to spin again or use the standup timer, which has an absent toggle.

Leave no-repeat on for meetings where everybody speaks. Each pick greys that name out on the wheel and takes it out of the draw until the round is done, which is the part that makes the rotation fair rather than merely random. When everyone has gone the wheel says so, and reset memory starts the next round.

Turn no-repeat off when you want a genuine coin flip every time, such as picking who takes an unplanned support ticket or who demos this week. There the point is that nobody can predict it, not that everybody gets a turn.

If spinning between speakers slows the meeting down, use random order instead. It gives you the whole list in one go, so you can read the next two names out and keep things moving. Random pairs splits the roster for review buddies or pairing, and adds one trio when the roster is odd rather than leaving someone out.

The wheel respects the reduced motion setting in your operating system. With it on, the spin animation is skipped and the pick is announced right away.

Fairness here is a property of one meeting, not of the month. Within a session, no-repeat guarantees everybody goes once before anybody goes twice: six names, six spins, six turns, and the wheel greys each one out as it is drawn. Across sessions nothing carries over, so Monday and Tuesday are two independent draws and one person can genuinely open two days running.

That is worth knowing because the memory is held by the open page rather than saved. Reloading the tab, closing it, or coming back tomorrow starts the round clean, while the roster itself persists. If you want a rotation that survives the week, the honest options are to write down who opened on which day, or to use random order once on Monday and read down the same list all week.

A worked round with six people: spin, and the arrow lands on Priya, who gives her update. Spin again and the draw is now from the remaining five, so Priya cannot come up. By the fifth spin only one name is eligible and the wheel is a formality. After the sixth the board says everybody has had a turn, and Reset memory puts all six back in the draw for the next item.