Run focused daily standups and keep the team aligned. Share updates, surface blockers, and keep standups short with a structured, collaborative board.
Made for Daily Standups
Daily standups need to be quick, focused, and aligned. Spreo gives teams a structured space to share updates, highlight blockers, and keep the session on track, so standups stay short and actionable instead of drifting into long discussions.
A structured board and visible timer help the team stay within time and avoid unnecessary discussion.
Team members can add updates simultaneously, making standups faster and more efficient for remote teams.
Blockers are added as stickies and can be turned into actions, so follow-ups are not lost after the meeting.
Each standup creates a visible record of updates that the team can reference throughout the day.
A daily standup is a short team sync where each member shares what they did yesterday, what they are working on today, and any blockers. The goal is to keep the team aligned and identify issues quickly, not to go into detailed discussion.
These sessions are typically limited to around 15 minutes and are run frequently, making them one of the most regular agile meetings a team will hold.
Teams use a template with zones for each team member or columns for Yesterday, Today, and Blockers, giving the session a clear structure from the start.
Each person adds a few sticky notes with their updates and any blockers before or during the standup, so the session stays short and everyone is prepared.
Blockers are flagged on the board and can be turned into actions assigned to specific people, so nothing is lost after the standup ends.
A visible timer helps the host keep the standup short and focused, so sessions consistently stay within the intended time without manual reminders.
Some teams use a persistent board that is refreshed daily, creating a continuous view of team progress and making it easy to spot patterns or recurring blockers.
The board gives the whole team a visible record of updates and blockers they can reference throughout the day, reducing the need for follow-up messages.
Daily standups are one of several agile meetings teams run regularly. Explore other agile sessions you can run in Spreo.
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What the teams who use Spreo every week say about it
Julio
Founder in Residence, Entrepreneur First
As a Founder in Residence at EF I have been doing loads of customer calls. Taking notes on those doesn’t really work well on Notion as you don’t have stickies to move around later and better organise your thoughts.
I tried Miro but it’s just so slow. I used to use Spreo (formerly Metro Retro) for retros at my previous company and I knew it was fast, and now I use it as my main “customer discovery note-taking” tool of choice!
Jason Martin
Agile Coach, Meltwater
Spreo improves the way I work.
There are constant requests to ‘facilitate a meeting for a topic’ and it doesn’t matter what is asked for, I know I can build a board for that. If you want to have a very structured, formally-designed meeting, Spreo has tools for that. Or if you want to have a bit of a free for all, figure it out as you go meeting, there are tools for that too.
Theda-Marie Howaldt
Agile Coach, Haiilo
Spreo is an integral part of our daily business - and not to forget the confetti tool - our teams love it!
We at Haiilo started using Spreo during the pandemic to connect and collaborate effectively in a remote setting.
We are now a global company with different locations and a larger team so it becomes even more important to have a tool in place that can be easily rolled-out without much user onboarding. With Spreo our teams conduct constructive workshops and meetings of all kinds and for multiple needs.
Vladimir Shnayder
Frontend Engineer, Avito
I want to say thank you for your wonderful tool! Spreo is an amazing tool, I’m glad to use this for my team meetings!
A lot of useful templates give us an opportunity to choose exactly what suits us for the end of sprint.
Tamas Grosz
Senior Project Manager
I’ve been using Spreo for many years with several teams. It brings joy to our meetings which is very hard online (the confetti is a great idea). I like the fast and effective creation of new boards also.
Spreo always worked flawlessly, it’s fast and does exactly what we need. There are always new or improved features, new board templates. We tried many other similar products, but at the end we came back to Spreo.
Chomba
Senior Consultant
I have worked as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach for the last 12 years. During the Corona Pandemic I was forced to move my regular meetings from on site to virtual. At the beginning it was strange and rather chaotic but with time it started to flow. My biggest fear was doing a retrospective online. Its not like i havent had teams working around the world, I know that working without face to face has its deficits. Ive learned to work with it. Spreo has done so much to help me in this respect
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