# Running Effective Standups — Resources

## Official Guides

- [Scrum Guide](https://scrumguides.org) — The Daily Scrum section defines the event and its purpose.
- [Scrum Guide — Daily Scrum](https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html#daily-scrum) — Direct link to daily scrum.

## Books

- **Agile Retrospectives** by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen — Covers meeting design, including standups; practical facilitation techniques.
- **Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time** by Jeff Sutherland — Origins of Scrum and daily standups.

## Articles

- [How to Run Effective Daily Standups](https://www.atlassian.com/agile/scrum/ceremonies/daily-standup) — Atlassian. Format options, tips, anti-patterns.
- [Why Standups Fail](https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/why-daily-stand-ups-fail) — Mountain Goat Software. Common pitfalls.
- [Async Standups: When and How](https://www.fellow.app/blog/async-standup) — Fellow. Async formats and tools.
- [Walk the Board — An Alternative to Round-Robin Standups](https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/walk-board) — Scrum.org. Board-based format.

## Tools

- [Geekbot](https://geekbot.com/) — Async standup bot for Slack, MS Teams.
- [Standuply](https://standuply.com/) — Async standups, surveys, retros.
- [Loom](https://www.loom.com/) — Quick video updates for async standups.
- [Miro](https://miro.com/) — Virtual boards for walking the board remotely.
- [Slack](https://slack.com/) — Threaded async standups with reminders.

## Videos

- [How to Run a Daily Standup](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=daily+standup+scrum) — Search for "daily standup scrum" for short explainers.
- [Engineering Culture](https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/engineering-culture/) — InfoQ podcast; episodes on meetings and team rituals.

## Podcasts

- [Agile for Humans](https://ryanripley.com/agile-for-humans/) — Episodes on standups and ceremonies.
- [Scrum Master Toolbox](https://www.scrummastertoolbox.com/) — Daily tips from practicing Scrum Masters.