The Daily Scrum....

Held daily

15- Minutes (no longer, otherwise it’s not a daily stand up)

Not for problem solving (if there are issues that need to be addressed hold a separate meeting)

Is not a status for the scrum master

It’s commitments in front of peers

• Hold the daily scrum in the same place at the same time every work day. The daily scrum is best held first thing in the day so that the first thing team members do on arriving at work is think of what they did the day before and what they plan to do today.
• All team members are required to attend. If for some reason a team member cannot attend in person, the absent member must either attend by phone or by having another team member report on the absent members status.
• Team members must be prompt. The scrum master starts the meeting at the appointed time, regardless of who is present. Any member who is late pays Rupees 50 to the scrum master immediately.
• The scrum master begins the meeting by starting with the person to his or her left and proceeding counter clockwise around the room until everyone has reported.
• Each team member should respond to three questions only:

1) What have you done since the last daily scrum regarding this project?

2) What will you do between now and the next daily scrum meeting regarding this project?

3) What impedes you from performing your work as effectively as possible?

• Team members should not digress beyond answering these three questions into issues, designs, discussion of problems, or gossip. The scrum master is responsible for moving the reporting along briskly, from person to person.
• During the daily scrum, only one person talks at a time. That person is the one who is reporting his / her status. Everyone else listens. There are no side conversations.
• When a team member reports something that is of interest to other team members or needs the assistance of other team members, any team member can immediately arrange for all interested parties to get together after the daily scrum to set up a meeting.

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I've been running my most recent project like this for a weeks. We still allow for short discussions about a requirements, or allow for a little show and tell of the software. The only thing I have changed is the order of who gives updates (keeping the the most wordy person last so we don't run out of time).

Overall it keeps people focused and moving forward ...