Daily Scrum Explained: A Better Way to Run It

The Daily Scrum is not supposed to be a status meeting. In this video, Mike Cohn explains how Scrum teams can make the Daily Scrum more useful by focusing on the work, not just going person by person through the usual three questions. You’ll learn why many Daily Scrums feel like status updates, what goes wrong when each person simply reports what they did, and how to use the Daily Scrum to inspect progress and adapt the plan. You’ll learn: • Why the Daily Scrum often turns into a status meeting • What’s wrong with the person-by-person three-question format • How to focus the conversation on product backlog items instead • Why discussing work item by work item can improve collaboration • How to help the team inspect, adapt, and plan the next 24 hours Use this if your Daily Scrum feels stale, repetitive, or disconnected from the real work of the sprint. Daily Scrum resources: https://bit.ly/MGSDailyScrum Guide to Daily Scrum: https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agile/scrum/meetings/daily-scrum Timestamps: 00:00 Why you’re probably doing Daily Scrums wrong 00:33 How most teams approach Daily Scrums 00:59 The problem with the three-question, person-by-person format 01:23 A better approach to the Daily Scrum 02:04 Four benefits of doing Daily Scrums PBI by PBI 03:40 Why teams cling to the status meeting legacy 04:18 How to inspect and adapt your Daily Scrum