Standup Report Fast

The Standup Report Fast command generates comprehensive daily standup reports by analyzing recent code activity, task progress, and team contributions across development platforms. It collects data from Git commits, pull requests, and project management tools to produce a structured summary of what each team member accomplished, what they are working on, and what is blocking progress. Run this command before or during daily standup meetings to provide data-driven status updates.

When to Use This Command

Run this command when...

• You need to generate a daily standup report that summarizes team activity from the past twenty-four hours
• You want to identify blockers and stalled tasks that require team attention before the standup meeting
• You are managing a distributed team and need asynchronous standup reports that team members in different time zones can review
• You want to track daily progress trends to detect when a sprint is falling behind early enough to take corrective action
• You need to produce standup summaries for stakeholders who want regular visibility into development progress

Consider alternatives when...

• You need sprint-level analysis rather than daily status, which the retrospective analyzer command provides
• You are planning upcoming work rather than reporting on recent activity, which the sprint planning command handles
• Your team prefers fully verbal standups without written reports

Quick Start

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# standup-config.yml
report:
  period: "last-24-hours"
  sections:
    - completed
    - in-progress
    - blocked
    - upcoming
sources:
  git: true
  github-prs: true
  linear-tasks: true
team:
  group-by: "member"
  include-metrics: true
format:
  output: "markdown"
  summary: true

Example invocation:

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/standup-report-fast --period "last-24-hours" --team engineering

Example output:

Daily Standup Report
=====================
Team: Engineering
Period: Mar 14, 2026 09:00 - Mar 15, 2026 09:00

Team Summary:
  Commits: 18 | PRs merged: 4 | PRs open: 3 | Tasks completed: 6

Alice:
  Completed:
    - ENG-301: Fixed auth token refresh logic (PR #142 merged)
    - Reviewed 2 pull requests
  In Progress:
    - ENG-315: Email notification system (60% complete)
  Blockers: None

Bob:
  Completed:
    - ENG-298: Caching layer - Redis integration done
  In Progress:
    - ENG-298: Writing integration tests for caching (PR #145 open)
  Blockers:
    - Waiting for DevOps to provision Redis staging instance

Carol:
  Completed:
    - ENG-305: User profile form component (PR #143 merged)
  In Progress:
    - ENG-305: Avatar upload endpoint implementation
  Blockers: None

Sprint Progress:
  Completed: 18/34 story points (53%)
  Days remaining: 8
  Projected completion: On track (based on current burn rate)

Core Concepts

Concept	Purpose	Details
Activity Aggregation	Collect work signals	Gathers commits, PR activity, task status changes, and comments from multiple platforms into a unified activity stream
Member Attribution	Group work by person	Associates each activity with the team member who performed it to produce per-person status sections
Blocker Detection	Surface impediments	Identifies tasks that have not progressed, PRs awaiting review, and items explicitly marked as blocked
Sprint Context	Track overall progress	Calculates sprint completion percentage and projected trajectory based on burn rate against remaining capacity
Trend Analysis	Detect pace changes	Compares daily activity levels against the sprint average to flag unusual slowdowns or accelerations

Architecture: Standup Report
===============================

+-------------------+     +---------------------+     +------------------+
| Git Collector     | --> | Activity Aggregator | --> | Member Attributor|
| (commits, PRs)    |     | (merge sources)     |     | (group by user)  |
+-------------------+     +---------------------+     +------------------+
                                                             |
                          +----------------------------------+
                          v
              +---------------------+     +-------------------+
              | Blocker Detector    | --> | Report Builder    |
              | (stalled items)     |     | (markdown output) |
              +---------------------+     +-------------------+

Configuration

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
period	string	"last-24-hours"	Time window for the report, specified as a relative duration or absolute date range
team	string	""	Team identifier to filter activity by team membership
format	string	"markdown"	Output format: markdown for readable text, json for data export, or slack for messaging integration
include-metrics	boolean	true	Include quantitative metrics such as commit count, PR count, and sprint progress
blockers-only	boolean	false	Generate a report that shows only blocked items and impediments

Best Practices

1. Generate the report before the standup meeting. Running the command five to ten minutes before the meeting gives everyone time to review the generated data and prepare their verbal updates. This shifts the meeting from status recitation to focused discussion of blockers and coordination needs.

2. Use the blockers-only mode for focused meetings. When the team is well-synchronized and daily status is visible through dashboards, switch to blockers-only reports that highlight only the items needing team attention. This keeps standup meetings short and focused on removing impediments.

3. Include sprint progress metrics for trajectory awareness. The daily report should show how the sprint is tracking against its commitment. Early detection of pace issues enables mid-sprint corrections like scope reduction or resource reallocation before the sprint deadline arrives.

4. Configure consistent team membership for accurate attribution. Ensure the team filter accurately reflects current team membership so that the report includes all relevant activity and excludes contributions from other teams sharing the repository.

5. Archive standup reports for retrospective analysis. Saving daily reports creates a granular record of team activity that the retrospective analyzer can use for trend analysis. This historical data reveals patterns like consistent Friday slowdowns or regular mid-sprint blocker accumulation.

Common Issues

Report misattributes commits from shared accounts or bots. CI systems and automated tools that commit under shared accounts inflate individual contributor metrics. Exclude known bot accounts and shared service accounts from the team filter to produce accurate per-person activity reports.

Activity from pull request reviews not captured. Code reviews are significant work but may not generate commits or task status changes. Ensure the report collects PR review events from GitHub and includes review comments and approvals in the contributor activity summary.

Time zone differences cause activity to appear in wrong report. Distributed teams spanning multiple time zones may have activity that falls outside the report's twenty-four-hour window for some members. Adjust the report period to cover a broader window or generate timezone-aware reports that capture each member's working hours appropriately.