How message menus in Slack improve daily standups

Get work done faster with the new Slack apps feature

Slack has just rolled out message menus option for its apps. It may have a solid impact on workflow improvements within Slack. We, at Standuply, strive to help remote teams to be more productive. So we’ve updated the bot to make daily standup meetings easier using message menus in Slack.

These are one of the most popular feature requests from our users:

ability to postpone a report to a later time;

quick response option, if you have nothing new to report;

add answers to a missed report.

We have foreseen Slack’s features that would allow us to bring these requests to life. So, right after the latest Slack release, we began coding hard to improve Standuply’s functionality.

It took us a couple of days and nights and so we’re ready to announce message menus in Standuply that we’re launching next week 🎉

Daily standups using message menus in Slack

From now on, every standup meeting via Standuply comes with a button Snooze and dropdown menu Select quick reply.

Answer whenever you want

Using Snooze button, you’re able to postpone answering the report to a later time. By clicking it, a message menu is loaded with options from 1h to 8h delay.

Also, Standuply will let others know that you can’t answer at the moment:

Once the time has gone the bot will get back to you to run a standup meeting again. When you finish answering the questions, Standuply will add your responses to the daily summary.

Reporting in one click

Sometimes we report the same things as yesterday or just don’t have time to do so at all. To make things easier Standuply provides you several pre-defined answers for a quick response via message menu Select quick reply.

In that case, your teammates will see the response you’ve chosen from the dropdown menu. Don’t overuse this feature, otherwise, what’s the point in having a standup meeting at all?

Catching up on the missed report

“If there is at least one chance to miss a standup, someone on our team will fall into that trap” — Standuply customer.

For those lucky ones we’ve added a button Report now. Even if a report is missed, you can click that button, and Standuply will run a standup meeting for you again. Then the answers are attached to the daily summary so that you can catch up with others.