The Daily Standup Questions of Life

On Checking In

A helpful productivity practice is asking daily standup questions.

Popularized by engineering teams, standup questions give you a quick pulse on how work is progressing.

You can also use similar questions in other areas of life, too. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, keep reading and you’ll catch on.

At The Day Job

• What did you do yesterday?
• What are you working on today?
• What are the blockers in your way?

These are the 3 traditional daily standup questions, a software engineering concept that has spread to basically all levels of companies, mostly tech companies.

Some teams estimate time to their workload and go through a huge checklist in their project management platform, but you get the concept.

These were traditionally called “scrums” and were refereed by a scrum master. It was part of agile software development, though the rules hae loosened over the years.

Another helpful way to think of these is as “status updates” but for work.

I’ve written about this concept a lot in a professional sense, mostly in the form of “What is…” articles, so I won’t bore you with…