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The Scrum Field Guide: Agile Advice for Your First Year and Beyond, Second Edition
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The Scrum Field Guide: Agile Advice for Your First Year and Beyond, Second Edition

by Mitch Lacey
December 2015
Beginner
480 pages
14h 11m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 17. Facilitating a Productive Daily Scrum

The daily scrum, or daily standup, seems like a simple concept. Gather together for 15 minutes each day to answer three questions designed to help teams sync up and ensure they are on track for completing the sprint goal. Yet too often, daily scrums degenerate into daily grinds, either because they drag on interminably, because they lack substance, or worst of all, because they have become finger-pointing blame sessions. Common symptoms of dysfunctional daily scrums include the following:

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Latecomers

Inattentiveness

Updates that are too long/too vague

Exceeding the 15-minute timebox ...

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