Comments on: One year of Scrum – Lessons Learned

By: russ

russ — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Okay, call me dumb but what do you mean by “daily standups” ?

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Daily meetings where the Scrum/Implementation teams talks about:
- What they did yesterday.
- What they are doing today.
- Where they are blocked.

They’re incredibly helpful at breeding collaboration and understanding dependencies when executing a request from the Product Owner.

By: Mark Levison

Mark Levison — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Russ – its not a stupid question. A Daily Standup or Daily Scrum meeting is at the core of Scrum. At the start of everyday the team meets to answer three questions:

1) What did I do yesterday?
2) What will I do today?
3) What roadblocks do I have?

The questions are answered in the spirit of sharing information with teammates not reporting to the ScrumMaster.
The meeting runs a maximum of 15 minutes.

By: Pete Verdon

Pete Verdon — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

“Standup” being because some people advocate having the meeting standing up. I have colleagues just starting out with Scrum who tell me that their daily meetings take an hour or more. I’ve not been present at any of them, but I assume that people are waffling about all sorts of other stuff rather than just answering the three questions. (The “other stuff” may be valid and useful, but misplaced in this meeting).

Standing up, so the theory goes, puts people in a different frame of mind to the Standard One-Hour Status Meeting and makes them less inclined to waffle.