Tatsu: Standup Meetings in Slack

Morgenbot (https://github.com/eelzon/morgenbot) is an open source variant of Tatsu. Interesting idea, all in all.

I see a couple of people pointing out opportunities for analytics which I suppose is a bit interesting, but I find the whole thing pretty distasteful.

Who would spend time building such an app? It's literally useless. During a standup you literally go around and ask everyone what they did and they reply. That's it and that's all. One of the nice things about it is how it doesn't require anything else, especially this kind of tool.

This seems like a good way of creating stand up reports that no one will read, except maybe management.

I've always thought of stand ups as a self-management tool and a short period of forced communication.

Wikipedia says "the structure of the meeting is meant to promote follow-up conversation, as well as to identify issues before they become too problematic" which having it as an asynchronous discussion seems to prevent.

Neat concept! I could see a lot of interesting ways this could grow: like building a graph of blockers based on @mentions and reminding people they are in the way. Of course it'd be nice to keep track of who is consistently late and after n tardies they have to bring :doughnut:s

Having played with Slack and Hubot a bit, you could probably write this yourself in 20 minutes. It's probably worth it simply as a conversation piece, too.

This is a simple but powerful tool that allows remote teams to experience the advantages of standups. Love it!

Great for remote/virtual teams! Love this.

Sometimes great ideas are the simplest.