Effective Scrum Meeting

Overview:

The Daily Scrum Meeting is held every day through the sprint.

At the meeting, the Scrum team gathers to review and synchronize about the project status.

In theory, each team member should provide his/her status based on three (03) Q:

1. What did you do yesterday?
2. What do you intend to do today?
3. Is there any issues that blocks your work?

# The participants should come prepared:

1. Stop participants that don't come prepared and waste the meeting time. The team members should come prepared to share their updates.
2. You should describe how to answer these questions effectively to increase the synchronization among the team members.
3. The team members should know what is your expectations from them while answering these questions.

# Validate that each individual describe the full picture:

1. Validate that each individual can answer the 3 questions (Do not continue until you get the answers or the reasons for why he can't provide them).
2. Validate that each team member is participating in the meeting (MANDATORY for this meeting).
3. Validate that each individual answers the truth about each one of the questions.

# This is not a technical meeting:

1. REMEMBER, these meetings are done to synchronize the team members. It's not about problem solving.
2. When a technical problem is raised, the Scrum Master will resolve it after the meeting.
3. You can't run an effective Scrum meeting while wasting time on technical solutions.

# The meeting should run with a specific timeframe:

1. Each individual should know how much he/she can speak (2-3 min at max.)
2. Meeting that run more than the defined time frame, are less effective.
3. You should define the start/end time of the meeting.
4. You should enforce the timelines.
5. The meeting is relevant per day, there is no real reason to make it for more than 15 min.

# The team members should understand the meeting target:

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