For our team members from Europe, the daily scrum happens around dinner time. The daily scrum reports become very awkward. They’re something like: “I did …, I won’t be doing anything else today, but I will do these things tomorrow. I don’t really need anything now, but I might when you go back to sleep.”

The Daily Scrum is a technique that comes from Agile. Agile encourages co-location. When co-location is not an option, then other solutions must be attempted.

I tried to do research to find the best practices. I found document that describe best practices, but they all say the same thing: “Distributed teams are complicated and we must be sensitive to needs of individual team members.”

It might work better to find that common time — even if not ideal — for you all to do the standup call. The benefits are tangible, immediate, and missed when they’re gone.