Daily Standup Timer
A daily standup timer keeps the shortest meeting of the day from becoming the longest. The Scrum Guide caps the daily scrum at 15 minutes, but without a visible countdown it drifts: one status update turns into a design discussion and the whole team stands around for half an hour.
This free daily scrum timer comes with the 15 minutes already split into timeboxes. Load it, put it on the screen, and start talking — when a timebox ends, the timer moves to the next one automatically.
The 15-minute standup agenda, timeboxed
| Agenda item | Timebox |
|---|---|
| Intro | 1 min |
| Yesterday | 5 min |
| Today | 5 min |
| Blockers | 3 min |
| Wrap | 1 min |
| Total | 15 min |
How to run a timed standup
Start the timer the moment the second person arrives — waiting for stragglers trains people to be late. Keep the countdown visible to everyone: on the shared screen in the office, or via the view-only share link for remote teammates.
When a topic outgrows its timebox, don't stop the timer — park the topic. Anything that needs more than a minute of back-and-forth becomes an after-standup conversation for the two or three people it actually concerns. The timer gives the facilitator a neutral way to say so: nobody is cutting anyone off, the clock is.
Timeboxing tips for daily standups
- Same time, same length, every day — predictability is what makes people concise.
- Walk the board instead of going person by person: talk about work items, not workloads.
- If the team regularly finishes in 8 minutes, don't fill the time. Ending early is a win.
- If 15 minutes is never enough, the team is probably too big or the standup is doing another meeting's job.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long should a daily standup be?▼
15 minutes is the standard, and it comes from the Scrum Guide's cap on the daily scrum. For teams of up to 8-9 people that is enough for updates and blockers. If you consistently need more, the discussion topics belong in follow-up conversations, not in the standup itself.
What if a topic runs over its timebox?▼
Park it. The timer auto-advances to the next agenda item, and the topic moves to an after-standup conversation with only the people involved. That is the whole point of a standup timer: the clock ends discussions so no person has to.
Can remote teammates see the standup timer?▼
Yes. Share the view-only link and everyone sees the same agenda and running countdown on their own screen — useful for distributed teams where nobody shares a physical room.
Can I change the 15-minute agenda?▼
Yes. The template is a starting point — edit titles and durations, add or remove items, and save your version with a unique ID to reload it every morning.
Free, no signup — opens the meeting agenda timer with this template loaded. Edit anything before you start.