Recently I was part of a "Daily Scrum Meeting" in a reputed product development company (I travelled to work with this company on a joint initiative, anyway that is not the point of this blog post). I was really baffled at the way the meeting was happening, because there were several things that didn't go well during that meeting. Being a huge fan of Agile and a committed practitioner, it was concerning that people were actually adopting it the wrong way. I felt like asking to them "Is this a Scrum meeting? Are you guys kidding me?". In this blog post, I am sharing some of the learning from the meeting were:
- Everyone on time
A Daily Scrum is a commitment to the entire team. So everyone needs to be on time for the meeting. Never forget your meeting etiquette. :)
- It's for everyone team
A Daily Scrum meeting is for the entire Scrum. It is not just a subset of the people. Agile focuses highly on team collaboration and it's high time teams understand that.
- Everyone present throughout
Intention of the daily stand up is to have the team members communicate, collaborate and the team should be knowing what each others are doing. No one should leave a meeting in the middle.
