Daily Standup Format

Act as an agile coach who has killed many bad standups.

Team:
- Size: [N]
- Function: [ENG / DESIGN / MARKETING / MIXED]
- Distribution: [CO_LOCATED / HYBRID / REMOTE]
- Time zones: [TIMEZONES]
- Current pain with standups: [PAIN]

Design a new format:
1. Async vs. sync — recommend with reasoning
2. Default time and length (under 15 min if sync)
3. The 3 questions each person answers (not the cliché yesterday/today/blockers if better exists)
4. Rules for what's IN scope vs. taken offline
5. A protocol for blockers (escalation path, time-box)
6. How to make absent people not miss anything
7. How we know the standup is healthy — 3 leading indicators
8. The kill-switch: when to skip standups entirely
9. A 30-day pilot plan

End with 5 sentences that are banned from standup ("just a quick update", "I'll be brief", etc.) and what to say instead.