Many timezones, one team – how do you stand up? (opens in new tab)

Not sure if it will fit your use case, but this was on HN a little while ago:

https://www.standupmail.com/

we have teams in UK (-1), Hungary and China(+6), so basically the same setup.

We do standups in UK morning so EU members have a morning standup and China members have a 'day closing' standup: "today i did..., tomorrow i will begin with ...".

works like a charm.

He tripped and fell into the solution-- and then didn't recognize it.

Everything conveyed in a standup is covered by your project tracker (what you did, what you're working on, and where you're stuck) and discussion can happen in your team chat.

Async development is the way to go. If you're having a standup, you're wasting time. And it doesn't work if you're distributed.

The issue tracking really shows what the status si. IF you're stuck, you assign the issue to someone to help you fix it, or you ask in the team chat room.

Keeping abreast of what's going on in the chat room keeps you abreast of the status of the team. The kanban board records it.

We used to work in +6 and -5 (or -4) timezone. Given no overlapping work hours, it was pretty difficult to do it. So one person from either team volunteered and proxy the team during odd hours standup (and we rotated each week which side will join at odd hours). However, later we've converted to collocated teams which is working greatly.

There is still someone (now specifically product owners) who bridges between both sides but both team now feel better sense of ownership as they their separate responsibilities in same product.

While the question is interesting, unfortunately the article didn't really present a good solution. At least I would have liked to see the results of more than one approach rather than just the one presented (which isn't really a solution IMHO).