Standup
A colloquial name for a brief daily team sync, commonly used interchangeably with the Daily Scrum, though the term itself is not in the Scrum Guide.
What it means
'Standup' comes from the practice of literally standing during the meeting to keep it short, a physical nudge toward brevity that predates Scrum. In Scrum terminology, the equivalent formal event is the Daily Scrum.
Outside Scrum, teams using Kanban or other Agile approaches also hold standups, often walking the board rather than following a scripted format.
Common mistakes
Regardless of the name, the goal is the same: a short, frequent sync that surfaces progress and blockers without turning into a status meeting for managers.
Example
The team calls their morning sync a 'standup' even though it functions exactly like a Daily Scrum inspecting the Sprint Goal.