Chapter 17. Facilitating a Productive Daily Scrum
The daily scrum, or daily standup, seems like a simple concept. Gather together for 15 minutes each day to answer three questions designed to help teams sync up and ensure they are on track for completing the sprint goal. Yet too often, daily scrums degenerate into daily grinds, either because they drag on interminably, because they lack substance, or worst of all, because they have become finger-pointing blame sessions. Common symptoms of dysfunctional daily scrums include the following:
Deep dives
Latecomers
Inattentiveness
Updates that are too long/too vague
Exceeding the 15-minute timebox ...
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