Conducting the Daily Scrum constantly contributes to improving the communication and engagement of the agile team in favor of the desired results through the product vision. However, knowing exactly how this meeting is carried out is important so as not to lose the purpose for which it is intended.

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Several teams were used to periodically presenting the “status” of the project’s progress or deliveries to the leadership. Therefore, when making the transition to agile methods, they transfer some vices that harm the result of the meeting.

Daily Scrum with results

The Daily Scrum needs to be an effective and results meeting. In other words and in a practical way, it is where you inspect progress towards the Sprint Goal and the evolution towards the completion of the work in the Sprint Backlog. So here are 5 tips to implement today and get more benefits:

01- Respect the 15-minute timebox

According to the Scrum Guide, the maximum duration of the Daily is 15 minutes. This imposes on the team the need to be objective and direct. That is, it allows members to focus on what really matters and report progress or impediments to achieving the Sprint goal.

If the speech of a team member is not adding value, suggest that a certain issue can be resolved later, so that the focus is maintained and the timebox respected.

02- Focus on the Sprint Goal

The focus is on evaluating progress towards achieving the Sprint Goal. Each day needs to represent progress towards the Sprint goal. Therefore, in each Daily, activities are reviewed and planned for the next 24 hours.

This is where the team’s progress is inspected, limiting itself to what has been done, what will be done and its impediments.

03- Identify impediments

During the reports, impediments may arise. They appear throughout the development of activities and hinder or delay progress. It should be noted that the Daily is not to solve them, but to carry out their identification.

Then, after completion, together with the Scrum Master, take time with the members who identified the impediment to understand in more detail to help them.

04- Give visibility to activities

One of the principles of agility is to make it clear and understandable to everyone involved what is happening. In this way, transparency becomes relevant, especially in projects that involve a high degree of complexity. To achieve this, simply make available to the team, for example, the Scrum Board or kanban. Through them, the team maintains the activities and their respective status in a visual way of the progress of the sprint. By demonstrating the different stages of the value stream, it encourages communication between members and clearly conveys progress.

In this sense, hold the meeting around the task board, if you are remotely, share the virtual board with everyone to highlight the evolution towards the Sprint goal.

05- Produce an action plan for the day’s progress

At the end of each Daily, have an action plan agreed between the members for the working day. It should be possible to meet until the next day, when a new meeting will be held and the progress will be inspected again.

That way all members focus on what really needs to be accomplished.

The daily meeting is the moment in which the team articulates adaptations to be executed during the day and to be able to advance towards the Sprint goal.

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This provides greater transparency for the team and focus on what is most important.

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If you liked this article, you may also be interested in these that describe the other Scrum meetings:

• Sprint Review: in addition to the demonstration of what was done ;
• Retrospective: making the continuous improvement of your team ;
• Sprint Planning – result and value for the organization ;

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The main result that is aimed at holding the daily meeting throughout the entire Sprint is to inspect the progress against the Sprint objective, so that if necessary, adapt the Sprint Backlog.

The Daily Scrum has a 15 minute duration limit, where each developer member describes how the progress was in a clear, transparent and objective way.
It’s about alignment to create advancement plan for the day and not status .

Daily on beefor

On the beefor platform, Daily is considered as the team’s fuel to drive them forward. When configuring it, indicating the time, it also starts to score, demonstrating an increase in the maturity of the application of agility.

By carrying out it with constancy, beefor through metrics demonstrates the increased maturity of the team.

On the other hand, the team maintains the pace of development on the right path, delivering valued deliveries.

How to perform the perfect Daily

To realize the perfect Daily it is important that all members of the development team participate and collaborate to re-plan and make decisions, not to solve problems.

In 15 minutes, efforts are focused on solving everything that involves the path towards the sprint goal and managing to generate the expected business value. That’s what’s at stake!

By checking progress toward the Sprint Goal and adjusting its plan accordingly, it’s up to the team to articulate adaptations to be carried out throughout the day.

With a shared vision of what needs to be done, the team is now committed to completing its work before the next meeting.

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