The slides that I used to help team understand the importance and the structure for the daily standup

1. Deepak T Gururaja

2. The Purpose

4. What is a Daily Standup?
 Scrum is team not only individuals
 Each individual comes to the scrum call
with the knowledge of Where I Stand
 At the end of the scrum, team walks out
with a knowledge of “Where WE Are”

5. Administrative aspects
 All team members present
 Held at the same time/same place
everyday
 Facilitated by the Scrum Master
 Preferable to do it at the start of the day
 Time box – 15 minutes
 Preferred mode of communication –
face to face

6. The chicken and pig story
Chicken: "Let's start a restaurant."
Pig: "Good idea, but what should we call it?"
Chicken: "How about 'Ham and Eggs'"
Pig: "No thanks. I'd be committed, you'd only
be involved."

7. Daily StandUp
 Both pigs and chickens can participate
 Participation is mandatory for committed
members
 Members who are committed are
allowed to talk
 People who are involved are allowed
only to listen

8. The structure
 All team members are required to
answer 3 questions –
 What did I do today – To help my team
achieve the sprint goal
 What will I do tomorrow – To help my team
achieve the sprint goal
 Do I see any impediments in my team
achieving the sprint goal
 Anything else?

9. What about these
 Getting inputs from other team members
 If I have to get the code debugged or a
solve a problem
 I need to get answers to queries
 I think one of the team members are
headed in the wrong direction. I need to
correct him
 I have to demo something I completed
yesterday

10. I have to discuss
these in the daily
scrum. These are
important items

11. Please regroup
after the scrum

12. Do your updates sound like this
on most days?

13. What's Wrong?
 Stuck on the same task for long without
being blocked
 Not “REALLY” making progress
 Doing spike task and not sure of the
outcome, or, even if there will be one
 In most cases, have no clue on what is
the way forward

14. What is the solution
 Clear Smaller tasks
 Tasks that can be completed in a day
 Each such task should have a clear
outcome
 If a day’s task isn't completed in 2 day,
you are very unlikely to finish it the third
day
Call out – we
are a team