Daily standups or (daily meetings or Daily scrums or daily syncs) are considered as one of the important daily ceremonies of teams. They serve as a way for employees to communicate with each other and to discuss any pressing matters or concerns.
You can read more about daily standups if you want but in this article I am sharing various Daily Standup templates that I found when I was working on a project.
Why should I use a Daily Standup Template?
More and more people work remotely and asynchronous communication is a must. Having a company wiki or at least a place you gather all the historical info (along with the daily syncs) will prove helpful in the long term.
For such a template I would look for flexibility of keeping record of past activities and standups and to be short enough for people to quickly read and understand.
Types of Daily Standup Meeting templates
From my search I found a variety of such templates: free, paid, in various formats (excel or google sheets). Templates for Notion, for Miro and even templates that belong to daily standup bots like Geekbot.
Finding the best free and paid daily stand up templates online is not an easy task. I tried to separate those that I didn’t like so you don’t have to look for.
If you don’t want to scroll click here to jump to Notion, Slack, Miro, Airtable, Confluence, Coda, Asana, Mural, Canva, Excel or Google Sheets, Figma, Butter, InVision, Guru, Lucidchart, Trello, Email,
Or go directly to my Airtable collection here that you can sort and filter.
daily standup notion template
OK you will probably find many many many (you got the idea) daily standup templates in Notion. Here are those that I found cool.
Mixpanel’s daily standup & tasks free Notion template
If you do not know Mixpanel and their engineering culture then look again. Their team shared their template to give to your whole team a searchable record of meetings in Notion as they work through complex projects.
Find it here.
Remote standups Notion template
This is a template made by Notion targeted to remote standup meetings. Same idea with the example above but more advanced as you can involve teams. This is also free.
Find it here.
Daily Standup Template from Airtable
If you are into no-code, you know Airtable as this powerful and easy to use base to do almost everything. Teams use it to share data, build apps and products and connect work and teams together.
If you don’t know Airtable, then welcome to an extremely powerful solution spreadsheet-database hybrid that allow you to build powerful applications.
For example check out their Daily check-ins template, which is a spreadsheet-database table that includes data from your team. You can populate your teammates, their daily blockers and projects and more. In the end you have everything in a database, easily to track and analyze.
Find it here.
confluence standup template
Confluence is a popular collaboration and team workspace software tool from Atlassian. Confluence has a free version and a paid one. Here are a few resources:
The Daily stand up template for Confluence is made and maintained by Atlassian. It works by inviting your team members to watch the template page created on your team site. Then they can fill in the daily stand up each week. Find it here.
Trello Daily standup template
Trello is a popular collaboration and personal/team planning software tool from Atlassian. I am sorry but I was not able to find a template per se but certainly a few boards that may help.
A Daily Task Management Template for Trello here, and a Scrum Board here both created by the community. If I missed something please let me know.
Daily Standup Excel/Google Sheets Template
OK so Excel and Google Sheets may not be the most versatile tools around for that specific use case. Though if you are looking where to start then give them a try.
If you look into the internets 😛 you need to check where you download templates from and be extra vigilant with the sources. Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you 🙂
Daily Standup Meeting Template for Google Sheets and Excel by Geekbot
Although Geekbot has a much more efficient way of doing standups and tracking them through their slack bot, they offer a Daily Standup Meeting Template for Google Sheets.
Find the Google Sheet and Excel versions here.
Daily Standup Meeting Template for Google Sheets and Excel by Standuply
Similar templates for Google Sheets and Excel you may find from Standuply here.
Daily Standup Meeting Email Templates
I never thought to send the standup questions over email but probably some people do it (I am ok with it really 🙂 ).
Daily Standup Meeting Email Template by Geekbot
In the next session you will find how Geekbot has a much more efficient way of doing standups and tracking them through their slack bot. Though they have a great article and they offer two (yes 2) daily standup templates.
- An email template for sending a standup meeting agenda over an email (for holding synchronous standups).
- An email template for running standups over an email thread (for holding asynchronous standups).
These are pretty straightforward emails and if you prefer this (probably for archiving) then this article has some insights and the email templates.
Daily Standup Templates for Slack
When Zapier replaced their standups with a bot didn’t expect huge results. Instead they changed the way they do their dailies. You can configure Geekbot’s Daily Standup template and let it run for you.
They found Archivability and Transparency as the ultimate changers.
Archives: All of these updates are stored and can be viewed on Geekbot’s dashboard or found via search in Slack. This is helpful if you can’t remember who’s working on what, and it’s also a nice way for managers to look back on progress for any given employee.
Transparency: Anyone can see the contents of the “standup” in your public Slack channel. This means more transparency, especially if someone’s searching Slack for something specific that you talked about in your standup…
If you are a Slack user (or MS Teams) connect Geekbot and use their Daily Standup template (or you can see a demo here).
Daily Stand-up Meeting Template by Miro
Miro is really really popular tool for collaborating in almost everything. It is a fast, free, and simple-to-use online whiteboard built to collaborate with others any time, anywhere.
The Daily Stand-up Meeting Template is built and maintained by Miro and you can try it to their free version.
You can find it here.
Daily Standup Meeting Templates in Figma
Figma has a huge community that creates templates that any (Figma) user can use. Here are some I found.
Daily standup meeting template for FigJam and Figma
If you like FigJam then this template is for you. Not bad but not my style. I prefer Miro’s.
Daily standup meeting template by the Figma community
Bersabel Tadesse created the template below.
Zvonimir Juranko has created this huge list of templates in FigJam and Figma.
Daily standup meetings template for Asana
Asana is a great productivity and project management tool. I use it almost daily and of course they offer a free daily standup template.
The Daily standup meetings template is built and maintained by Asana.
Find it here.
Daily standup meeting template for Guru
Guru is a company wiki that works in your workflow, so the information you need to do your job is always at your fingertips.
The Daily standup meeting template is built by Stephen Olmstead of InVision for use in Guru.
Find it here.
Team Daily Standup Template by Mural
If you speak with agile practitioners they either work with Miro or Mural. It’s a fight out there. Mural is a collaboration tool and below is the daily standup template Mural has for your pleasure.
Find it here.
Daily Standup Meeting Agenda Template from Butter
Butter is a refreshing video conferencing tool which is not like the rest! It takes collaboration and conversations to the next level! Butter, is built for planning, running, and recapping engaging and interactive collaborative sessions.
They share the Daily Standup Meeting Agenda Template to help align your team.
You may find it here.
Daily standup meeting template from Lucidchart
Lucidchart offers a collaboration and online charting software tool. It is pretty straightforward and I use it from time to time..
Their Daily standup template is can be found here.
Daily Standup Template from InVision
InVision is a productivity and collaboration software.
They also offer a daily stand up template for you to host in InVision (it has a free plan as well).
Find it here.
Daily standup meetings template for Coda
Coda my friend 🙂 Coda is a super popular no-code tool that brings all your words, data, and teamwork into one powerful doc. It is extremely useful and I will write more when I have time. For now to the task at hand…
The free Daily standup meeting template is built and maintained by Coda.
Find it here.
Daily standup meeting template from Canva
Canva is a multi-tool like no other. If you dont know it you should try it. It has a huge community of supporters and they create awesome stuff with it.
I found a number of standup templates here but my favorite is the one below.
It is for certain use case only but you can find it here.
That’s it! I hope you loved it. Till the next time
George Psistakis | Growth | Marketing 