Daily Scrum

Notes

• It's a Scrum ceremony whose purpose is to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal.

• It's a 15-minute event for the developers of the team. Product Owner and Scrum Master also participate if they're actively working on items in the Sprint Backlog.

• It gives a macro vision of the project. Everyone on the team will be on the same page.

  • Improves the team's level of knowledge.
  • Optimizes the probability that the team will meet the Sprint Goal.

• Each member of the team answer these questions:

  • What did I do yesterday?
    • This question helps managers manage and organize the backlog, priorities, and the value that will be delivered to the product.
  • What do I plan to do today?
    • This question helps each member of the team to create focus and improves self-management.
    • It also gives a little slack to each member.
  • Are there any obstacles?
    • Allow members to help each other after meeting.

• It's not a status meeting. The status meeting goal is to report what was done to the manager, only. Besides this goal, Daily Scrum also provides:

  • Self-organization: each member must plan their next steps and fulfill their accountability.
  • Maximize transparency because it enables frequent inspection and adaptation. This is important to deal with the complexity and unpredictability that exists in software development.
  • Remember the team about the Sprint goals and values to be delivered.
  • Collaboration. Once someone has been blocked, a team member can help to solve the problem.

Questions

• Can Daily Scrum be done asynchronously?

References

• scrum.org. What is a Daily Scrum?

Backlinks

• Scrum