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Published on 2010-03-01
As a remote team with dispersed team members, we need to find ways to stay connected, motivated and committed. We thought of borrowing something from Scrum and try it out. It's the Daily Scrum Meeting or Daily Stand Up and we have decided to try it for 30 days and see if we like it or not.
The Daily Scrum is:
Daily Scrum Each day during the sprint, a project status meeting occurs. This is called a “daily scrum”, or “the daily standup”. This meeting has specific guidelines:During the meeting, each team member answers three questions:
- The meeting starts precisely on time.
- All are welcome, but only “pigs” may speak
- The meeting is timeboxed to 15 minutes
- The meeting should happen at the same location and same time every day
- What have you done since yesterday?
- What are you planning to do today?
- Do you have any problems preventing you from accomplishing your goal? (It is the role of the Scrum Master to facilitate resolution of these impediments. Typically this should occur outside the context of the Daily Scrum so that it may stay under 15 minutes.)
We are a remote team and we had to tweak it a little to fit our needs:
Results are positive so far. First of all, we feel that someone hears what we do everyday. If we have any problems or questions we can ask our fellow team members for help. We are committed because we promise a daily plan and we want to deliver it. We stay focused. All that, by spending 20-30 everyday to plan our day and present that plan to our colleagues.
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