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Fixing Your Scrum
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Fixing Your Scrum

by Ryan Ripley, Todd Miller
January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
242 pages
6h 5m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Coach’s Corner

If your Daily Scrum doesn’t suffer from any of the major anti-patterns we discussed in this chapter, but you still feel like it could be more productive, here are a few things that you can try during your next daily scrum:

  1. At the beginning of your next daily scrum, take a few minutes to remind the team of its purpose.

  2. Remove yourself from the circle of development team members to put focus on the sprint goal and to help avoid the daily scrum devolving to a status meeting.

  3. If you need to participate during the daily scrum—especially with new teams—try to limit yourself to open-ended questions that promote transparency, encourage inspecting the sprint goal, and promote adaptation by creating a new plan for the day.

  4. Skip attending ...

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