Standups are common in software development. It is a proven method to drive projects and results. Here is how you can use it for your own success.

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What is a standup?

If you know, you know, and can skip this paragraph. If you don’t know, here is a quick summary:


A daily standup is a framework used by teams to track daily progress within a bigger work project. This is applied in an agile methodology that is common in software development. But that doesn’t matter here. What matters is that this is a meeting set up by someone who needs to track the progress of a project and find out if anything is blocking it.


In short, it is a meeting where people answer these 3 questions: 

  • What did you do yesterday?
  • What you will do today? 
  • What blocks your progress?


How about, starting tomorrow, you do this for yourself? Your own morning standup. Time for your check-in.  Setup a meeting for yourself and answer the three questions above.

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Why? Because meetings other people put on your calendar are meant to check in on the progress that is important to them. To a company. To a business. Nobody will put up a meeting that is beneficial just for yourself.

So take it into your own hands, and set it up. If it helps the fastest-growing and most successful companies, it will help you and your career.


P.S. This requires that you have projects you are working on and you keep track of them on a higher level like a weekly or monthly plan. If you don’t have these, how about you establish them and your first week of daily standups would be to check in with yourself on your weekly and monthly plans.

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