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Instead of thinking of the daily stand-up as a ritual for the people, think of it as a ritual where the Work Items Attend (e.g., User Stories in an Agile context) and the people attend only to speak for the work items... since obviously the work items can’t actually talk.
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Focused on the Runners, not the Baton
People are too focused on what they are doing but neglect to consider whether their activities are actually progressing the work. Reframe the stand-up such that the Work Items Attend.
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Tristan RivoallanThe daily stand-up meeting (also known as a "daily scrum", a "daily huddle", a "morning roll-call", etc.) is simple to describe: the whole team meets every day for a quick status update. We stand up to keep the meeting short. That's it. But this short definition does not really tell you the subtle details that distinguish a good stand-up from a bad one.
Given the apparent simplicity of stand-ups, I was quite surprised the first time I saw one that wasn't working. It was immediately obvious to me what was wrong but I realised that it was not obvious to the team. I realised that my team was not aware of the underlying principles and details that would allowed them to diagnose and solve problems with stand-ups. -
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What is the purpose of the daily stand-up meeting?
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share commitment
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communicate daily status, progress, and plans to the team and any observers
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identify obstacles so that the team can take steps to remove them
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set direction and focus
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build a team
stand-ups should achieve the following goals:
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When people are knocked down every time they raise a problem, they will tend to stop raising problems.
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Replace some or all of the meetings and reports with the daily stand-up. Anyone who is directly involved in or wants to know about the day-to-day operation of the project should attend the single daily stand-up meeting.
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Not all forms of reporting will be, nor should be, covered by the stand-up format. For example, overall project progress would be better communicated with a Big Visible Chart [Jeffries, 2004] such as burn-down, burn-up, cumulative flow diagram, etc.
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Team members that cannot attend the stand-up in person should find a way to Attend by Proxy. This can be in the form of a representative, calling in by telephone, or sending an e-mail summary before hand. Virtual attendance is still better than non-attendance.
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Things I have done since yesterday's meeting
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Things I am going to get done today
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Obstacles that I need someone to remove
in order to emphasise that team members should not be Reporting to the Leader:
Each team member updates his peers:
In turn, each team member provides his peers with 3 pieces of information:
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Was I able to fulfill what I committed to?
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What am I comfortable committing to today?
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What is obstructing me in meeting my commitments?
If we reconsider this in light of a focus on commitment, the questions might be re-worded as follows:
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The structure is not as important as the information the answers to the questions provide.
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I tend to add a fourth question: “What might help or hinder others in meeting their commitments?”
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Don’t Use the Stand-up to Start the Day. Schedule the daily stand-up meeting far enough into the day that it will not be psychologically associated as starting the day.
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I Can't Remember
“What did I do yesterday?... I can't remember... What am I doing today?... I dunno...”
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Daily stand-ups are meetings. Like all meetings, participants have a responsibility to prepare.
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Benoît DefranceHow do we keep up the energy level of the daily stand-up? Huddle
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Trevor GreenThe daily stand-up meeting is simple to describe: the whole team meets every day for a quick status update. This short definition does not really tell you the subtle details that distinguish a good stand-up from a bad one.
agile process xp scrum standup patterns meetings for:rogerweiss for:cjlotz for:digin
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