{"id":22929,"date":"2021-02-26T12:12:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T11:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scrum-master.org\/how-can-you-improve-your-daily-scrum\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T20:59:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T18:59:49","slug":"how-can-you-improve-your-daily-scrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scrum-master.org\/en\/how-can-you-improve-your-daily-scrum\/","title":{"rendered":"How can you improve your Daily Scrum?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Daily Scrum Standup Meeting <\/b>is a popular practice in agile<\/b> software development, involving a daily 15-minute meeting of the development team. During this meeting, each team member answers three important questions: “What did I accomplish yesterday?”, “What am I going to accomplish today?” and “What are the obstacles that could get in my way?”.<\/p>\n

The purpose of this meeting is to keep the whole team on the same wavelength, to ensure that everyone is aware of the progress made by other team members, and to quickly detect any obstacles that could prevent the team from moving forward towards achieving the Sprint goal.<\/p>\n

This practice has become very popular as it keeps the team engaged, minimizes delays and promotes open and transparent communication between team members.<\/p>\n

In this article, we’ll explore in more detail how the Scrum Daily Meeting works, the benefits it offers, the best practices as well as the bad practices you should avoid!<\/p>\n

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The Scrum Master plays a key role in facilitating the Daily Standup Scrum Meeting. The Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring that the meeting runs smoothly and efficiently, following the rules established by the Scrum method. Here are some of the Scrum Master’s main responsibilities during this meeting:<\/p>\n

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    Ensuring that the meeting starts and finishes on time: The Scrum Master must ensure that the meeting starts at the agreed time, even if not all team members are present. The meeting must also end at the agreed time so that team members can get on with their work.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Encourage team members to focus on the three questions: The Scrum Master should ensure that team members answer only the three questions “What did I accomplish yesterday?”, “What am I going to accomplish today?” and “What obstacles might be in my way?”.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Facilitate discussion in the event of blockages: If a team member points out an obstacle, the Scrum Master must facilitate discussion to find a solution. He or she can help clarify the issue, ask further questions or set up an action plan to resolve the problem.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Enforce time limits for each team member: The Scrum Master must ensure that each team member has the same amount of time to answer the three questions. He can use a timer to ensure that each team member does not exceed the allotted time.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Keeping the meeting on track: the Scrum Master must ensure that the meeting stays on track. If a team member starts discussing a topic that is not relevant to the meeting, the Scrum Master must intervene to refocus the discussion.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Encourage open and transparent communication: The Scrum Master should encourage team members to communicate openly and honestly during the meeting, so that everyone is aware of progress and obstacles encountered.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In short, the Scrum Master plays an important role in facilitating the daily Scrum meeting, ensuring that all team members are able to communicate effectively and make progress towards their common goals.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    The most common abuses of Daily Scrum<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    During my missions as a Scrum Master, I’ve heard a lot from teams where I’ve really felt their frustration around the Daliy standup meeting ceremony. It’s thanks to these professional experiences and discussions that I’ve found the inspiration to list here some of the abuses I’ve seen during Daily Scrum.<\/span><\/p>\n