You can learn a lot from not turning up at a Scrum meeting. Think your daily Scrums aren’t working as well as they could be? Try this: Simply don’t show up to the next one. Don’t telephone, don’t arrange for someone to cover for you, don’t even let the members of your team know that you won’t be there. Just don’t go. Afterwards, talk about what happened. How did your absence change the Scrum dynamic? Did the scrum meeting still happen as planned? Did it start on time? Did anyone capture the issues and relay them back to you, or communicate to you the most relevant points so you could follow up later? Crucially, was the scrum more or less valuable without you present? The daily scrum isn’t about – or for — the ScrumMaster so it should be just as effective even if you weren’t there. And if it wasn’t? Then this is a great way to open the conversation so that you can talk about ways to improve it Read more: https://bit.ly/3ACrQLq