Automate Daily Standups

Introduction

Standups are valuable but the prep is tedious. Dume Cowork can run every morning as a scheduled task — pulling data from Jira, your calendar, and recent activity — and post a perfectly formatted standup to Slack before your team arrives online.

How It Works

Dume Cowork runs natively on your desktop with access to your local apps and connected integrations. You set up a scheduled task once and it executes automatically on a schedule.

Step 1 — Connect your tools

Ensure the following integrations are active:

• Jira — to read ticket status changes
• Slack — to post messages to a channel
• Google Calendar (optional) — to include meetings attended

Step 2 — Create the scheduled task

In Dume Cowork, go to Tasks → New Scheduled Task and describe the automation:

Every weekday at 9:00 AM:
1. Fetch all Jira tickets I worked on yesterday (status changed to In Progress or Done)
2. Check my calendar for completed events yesterday
3. Check my Jira backlog for today's planned tickets
4. Compose a standup message:
   - ✅ Yesterday: [list tasks completed]
   - 🔧 Today: [list planned tasks]
   - 🚧 Blockers: [any blocked tickets, or "None"]
5. Post the message to #engineering on Slack

Step 3 — Review the first few runs

For the first week, Dume Cowork will notify you before posting so you can verify the output. Once it looks right, switch to auto-post mode.

Example Standup Output

👋 Daily Standup — Alice

✅ Yesterday
  • Completed API rate limiting implementation (JIRA-412)
  • Reviewed PR for auth refactor (JIRA-408)
  • Attended sprint planning (1h)

🔧 Today
  • Write unit tests for JIRA-412
  • Start JIRA-415: pagination component

🚧 Blockers
  • JIRA-413 blocked on design review — flagging @bob

Customization

You can tailor the automation in plain language:

• "Only post if I have more than 1 completed task, otherwise skip"
• "Add an emoji summary based on velocity — 🟢 if >3 tasks, 🟡 if 1–2, 🔴 if 0"
• "Include a link to my Jira board"
• "Skip Mondays and only post Tuesday through Friday"

Scheduled Tasks in Dume Cowork

Scheduled tasks persist across desktop restarts. Dume Cowork runs them at the specified time even if you're mid-session in other apps — it operates in the background without interrupting your workflow.