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Feature request for way, way down the line: auto-integrating product work into daily/weekly standup meeting invites.

If I have committed something, updated a ticket, run a deployment, resolved a pagerduty issue, moved a work task from Planning to Doing, etc, then automate retrieving this work log and pre-populate it in the meeting invite. All members of the meeting can see the work and can ask about it if they need to. The individual then doesn't need to state what work they did, but only mention their blockers.

I believe this would benefit virtually any group with a stand-up meeting. It's a lot of integration work, though. Might already exist, I'm not sure.

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Thanks for bringing this up! One thing that we are not yet sure how much value the concept of daily/weekly standing meetings will add to the teams using Meetter for most of their meetings.

I feel like many meeting habits and practices are evolved from the physical office environment that has limitations that are not present in the virtual world.

Btw, check out this talk from Al Pittampali at Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn-q529ExFw One of the keystone habits he is advocating is "Make all standing meetings tentative"

Oh I agree, but we do need to discuss blockers relatively quickly after they come up, and stand-ups can be an efficient way to do this. You can try to just automate workflows or try to get people to resolve blockers asynchronously, but if it takes more than a couple replies to resolve them, now a meeting may have been faster/more efficient.

If I'm using Meetter to automatically schedule a stand-up, I (presumably) can say, only schedule the meeting if we have blockers to discuss, and only invite the people who are mentioned in the issue/blocker. But how to determine if there's blockers, and who to invite? Query the issue tracker.

You could look up blocked GitHub or ZenHub Issues and generate a stand-up to discuss them once they happen, and maybe re-generate a stand-up after X time if they have not been updated, to prevent stale blockers.

What I get out of this is when I work for a company which requires stand-ups, I don't have to go to them if I have no blockers. I know I would pay for that privilege :-)

Ah, I see what you are suggesting. This indeed makes sense and may be possible not so far down the road when we expose APIs.

For now, it is possible to implement the same workflow with the current version of Meetter just by asking someone to check task tracker for blockers about 30 minutes before the Meetter hour and manually create topics.

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