Marcus UdokangProject Manager| Aivaz ConsultingCalgary, Alberta, Canada
One method for daily stand-ups is Walking the Board or Walking the Wall. That is, taking the attention away from the individual and putting it where it should be, on the work. Cards on a board provide the agenda item for the stand-up. Commenting on an agenda item is easier than putting someone on the spot to tell a story about their past, present and future work.
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Daily stand-ups are always productive and efficient if and only if people understand that is not about micro management, is about to facilitate the work. Decide or not to have it, decide about the tool and technique to use, must be done after understanding people is creating a solution then the current situation must be understand to decide it. In the last time, I had daily stand-up from have it each day in the cafeteria when the team start the working day to zoom meetings. Saving Changes...
Rather than doing a round robin of team members which usually causes those who have spoken first to tune out, it might be worth discussing work item by work item if the team does collaborate on completing individual work items. Another approach is to focus on dependencies within the team and any external ones which might impact the day's work. Finally, you could focus the conversation on impediments.
The team needs to own their ceremonies - if they won't, then a frank discussion at a retrospective might help to "unblock" them.
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Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
The Daily Scrum event is an event to inspect the work of the Sprint. It is an opportunity to reflect on the Sprint Goal and discuss the work in flight to achieve it and potholes (no matter the size) that are or might be impediments. While there are various mechanisms to achieve that, we want to remain cautious that the event does not become a status event, task tracker, or zombie event. Saving Changes...
Too often, daily stand-up meetings are about what work was done, not what work needs to be done today. They become just another status meeting relying on the theory that if everyone has to report on their progress, it drives execution or it becomes obvious who's not working hard.
I find effective stand-ups are about what needs to be done today. Priorities need to shift so that the urgent issues are addressed immediately. Someone might be really busy and they need to hand off some of their responsibilities. The plan shifted overnight and now everyone has to re-align to be on the same plan.
If you are not focusing on planning what needs to be done today, and just walking the wall so that everyone knows they have to report what they did yesterday, then people quickly tune out of the briefing once they've reported their own status. Saving Changes...
Marcus UdokangProject Manager| Aivaz ConsultingCalgary, Alberta, Canada
@Sergio, @Kiron, @Andrew, @Keith, very valuable points. Much thanks for the input.
