Team Standups

Team standups transform daily meetings from unstructured discussions into efficient, data-driven sessions. One Horizon automatically prepares work summaries and provides collaborative tools to keep standups focused and productive.

Configuration

Standup configuration happens in your team settings. Team admins can enable standups and set the meeting schedule that works best for your team.

When you manually create a daily standup within One Horizon you can choose the days, timezone and time the meeting takes place. You can choose which days of the week to hold standups and specify the meeting time that works for your team.

Calendar integration

If you enabled Google Calendar and connected it, we can sync the meeting and standup you already have or create a meeting in Google Calendar. Google Calendar integration automatically syncs standup meetings with your team's calendars when connected. Existing recurring meetings can be linked, or new meetings will be created.

Manual scheduling works when Google Calendar isn't connected. Team members receive Slack or email notifications about standup times and can access the standup board manually.

Automated preparation

Each time the meeting occurs, the Slack bot or email will send each team member a summary of what they worked on. They can edit and approve either in Slack or in the dashboard, again depending on connected integrations.

Pre-standup summaries are sent 30 minutes before each meeting, giving team members time to review and edit their automatically generated work summaries.

Right before the standup we will send an email or Slack message with the details of the meeting. Meeting reminders arrive 2 minutes before standup time, alerting the team through their configured Slack channel or email.

Delivery methods

Delivery method depends on your workspace integrations. Teams with Slack connected receive notifications through the One Horizon bot, while others receive email notifications.

The standup board

A user can open up the standup board and go through a daily standup. The collaborative standup board shows the same 3 columns as with the daily users recap.

Holistic view across integrations

The standup board brings together work from all your connected tools into one unified view. See commits from GitHub, issues from Jira and Linear, calendar events, and custom tasks in one place. Each team member's planned work includes in-flight issues from their trackers, giving everyone a complete picture of what's happening across the team without switching between tools.

Worked on column

The worked on section shows what you did since the last meeting and now. This includes the weekend on Monday if your last standup was Friday. For each member you can see the updates and walk through planned work and blockers they might have.

Live collaboration

During the standup anyone can edit and change items they see. We show live collaboration using colors and focus colors. Live collaboration indicators show when multiple team members are viewing or editing items simultaneously, using colors to identify who's making changes.

Using the next and previous buttons a user can navigate to the next team member. Navigation controls help move efficiently through the team to focus on each team member's updates in turn.

Time awareness

We have a simple blue bar at the top that acts as a timer. It is there to nudge users and members a bit to stay on time and not talk for 20 minutes unnoticed. The progress bar provides gentle time awareness without rigid enforcement, helping teams stay aware of meeting duration without creating pressure.

Discuss offline functionality

At any given time a user can also choose to discuss an item on Slack if connected. This would kick off an offline discussion workflow to talk about a topic outside the daily standup.

Discuss offline functionality lets you kick off Slack discussions about specific items without derailing the standup. Click on any item to start an asynchronous conversation thread.

Google Meet integration

To easily share the standup board we also provide a handy Google Meet add-on. This can be installed on a user or organization level. We have separate integration docs on this one.

A separate Google Meet add-on provides seamless screen sharing capabilities during remote standups. The integration makes it simple to share the collaborative board with remote team members and maintain engagement during distributed meetings.

Post-standup

Now when the daily is concluded you get a nice overview and everyone can get back to work. Meeting summaries capture what was discussed and any action items that emerged during the standup. These summaries are available to all team members after the meeting concludes.

The standup history maintains a record of past meetings, making it easy to track progress over time and reference previous discussions. Next standup preparation begins immediately, with the system tracking new work and preparing summaries for the following meeting.