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How much is your standup really costing?

Most teams never do the math. A 15-minute standup with 8 engineers does not cost 15 minutes. It costs 2 hours of collective engineering time, plus the context-switch tax on both sides. Every single day.

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$80k $250k
5 min 30 min

Includes 23 minutes of context-switching cost per person per meeting, based on UC Irvine research on interruption recovery time.

Annual Hours Lost

That is hours your team spends standing in a circle instead of shipping.

Annual Dollar Cost

In loaded salary cost, your standup costs per year.

Opportunity Cost

At roughly 120 engineering hours per feature, that is features you could have shipped instead.

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