In Scrum, each day scrum team gathered for at most 15 minute for quick update of their work status like what they are working on, how much work is completed or remaining and what next after that portion of work along with impediments /roadblocks for the individual’s and for overall team. This meeting helps product development teams more productive and efficient.
Meetings are typically held in the same location and at the same time each day to avoid the complexity of finding room and confusions, consistency is the key. A daily scrum meeting is held at any time either start of the day or before the end of the day however I suggest having the daily scrum in between the day, every time we might have to hear about the in-progress work. Development team might be somewhere in between their work.
In an agile development process, every team member answer three simple questions that was just the guideline, but we can always extend the new idea:
- What did you accomplish since the last meeting?
- What are you working on until the next meeting?
- What is getting in your way or keeping you from doing your job?
Additional:
- Code Smell or Missing Unit Test did you spot?
- What improvement did you make?
If members of the team need to discuss an issue that cannot be covered in 15-minute time-box, I recommend they should continue a meeting followed by the standup for other issues and technical discussions. This allows team members to attend meetings that directly involve their work, instead of sitting through irrelevant meetings. If any team member wants to discuss thoroughly and speaking continuously in that case asking people to stop talking can be awkward, but still someone from team have to stop him/her and say politely “can we discuss that later in technical session?” or “we have time limit here” or “Let’s do the stand-up first”, because sometime what happen is we forgot and just want to talk as much as we can but everyone need to understand this, Daily standup is just for the high level update not for any kind of discussion.
It is important for our team to see what is being finished and what is taking longer than expected, so changing the status before standup and reflect the actual status by burn down. Nevertheless, for any kind of obstacle and discussion team member doesn’t have to wait for daily call, Individual talks can happen at any time of the day aside from the stand-up meeting.
Always start daily call at the same time to avoid the confusions. Waiting around for your team member is the worst thing, those who miss or late will feel guilty and try harder to make it next time. In cases of roadblocks, where the Scrum Master cannot remove impediments directly themselves usually the technical issues, s/he still takes responsibility for making sure someone on the team does quickly resolve the issue.
Last thing to keep the energy level up in daily call, we have to focus on the volume of speech. Physical distance in a meeting room changes the level of volume required to communicate well. Some people don’t speak loudly and don’t feel comfortable doing so. Volume of speech affects attentiveness as well as effectiveness of communication.
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