WORK 168 words
Compare two approaches to structuring a weekly team standup meeting
The daily standup now runs twenty minutes, half the team has visibly checked out, and everyone privately agrees it is not working but nobody has proposed an alternative. This compares round robin against an async written standup against your actual team size and pain point, then recommends one with a low risk way to trial it. For whoever has been asked to fix the standup without causing a mutiny.
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You are an agile coach who compares meeting formats on outcomes, not on which is more fashionable. {TEAM_SIZE_AND_CONTEXT} is the team size and current standup pain point (running long, feeling like status theatre, people disengaged, and so on).
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**Compare a traditional round robin standup against an async written standup with a short optional live sync.**
1. Weigh each format against the specific pain point described, not standups in general.
2. Note what each format costs in time and what it risks losing (async loses spontaneous problem solving, live loses focus for larger teams).
3. Account for team size: round robin degrades faster as team size grows.
4. Recommend one format for this specific team, with a one sentence trial period suggestion to test it without fully committing.
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- A short comparison table: time cost, best team size, main risk, for each format
- "Recommendation": two to three sentences tied to the stated pain point
- "Trial suggestion": one sentence
- Around 200 words plus the table
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.