Free Standup Bot for Microsoft Teams: Automate Your Daily Standups
Free standup bots help teams run async daily standups inside Microsoft Teams, saving time while maintaining alignment. With prompts, reminders, and automatic summaries, your team stays in sync without scheduling overhead.
Key Benefits
- Time savings: Replace 15-minute meetings with 3-minute async updates
- Better visibility: Centralized summaries in your Teams channel
- Inclusive participation: Ideal for distributed and cross-timezone teams
- Actionable follow-up: Surface blockers with owners and due dates
How It Works in Microsoft Teams
- Install the bot to a Team and choose the target channel.
- Pick the cadence and timezone for prompts.
- Customize questions (e.g., yesterday, today, blockers).
- Enable automatic summaries and notifications.
Recommended Questions
Core
- What did you complete since our last update?
- What will you focus on today?
- Any blockers or risks?
Optional
- Confidence level (1—5)
- Help needed from the team
- Shout-outs or wins
Best Practices
- Keep prompts short; focus on outcomes and blockers.
- Schedule summaries just before core collaboration hours.
- Rotate a "blocker champion" to drive follow-ups.
- Review trends weekly to improve forecasting and flow.
Try Scrumrobo Free
Scrumrobo offers a free tier that runs automated standups in Microsoft Teams with customizable questions, reminders, and channel summaries.
Get started in minutes
- Connect Scrumrobo to Microsoft Teams
- Select your Team and channel
- Choose questions and schedule
- Announce the new async standup to the team