Wednesday, June 22, 2011

How to - Improving the Scrum Practice


Daily Scrum meeting alias Daily Standup meeting is an important element of Scrum Process Practice. It is usually a 15 minutes discussion and it makes everyone to answer three basic questions. "What did you do since the last meeting?", "What are you going to do until the next meeting?", "What impedes you from being more productive?". The purpose of this rigidness is for making sure that daily Scrum is to help team members synchronize between themselves, not to solve problems.


There are few quick improvement ideas below.




  • Visual Progress Artifact board based discussion – ideally in front of the task board with the sprint and backlog.

  • Everyone should attend – because this meeting should be utilized as a wide communication bandwidth as possible.

  • Don’t take Notes – Take only micro notes by hand. Don’t use the laptop typing.

  • Concentrate on "What are you going to do until the next meeting?", "What impedes you from being more productive?" – to figure out what’s blocking the efficient work and who could help it.


The above mentioned simple tips can be good starting points or reminders. However, every team knows best how to adjust its stand-ups to serve them better. The important part is the goal, not the method.

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