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Daily Scrum is NOT a status meeting

Exploring the myth that a Daily Scrum is status meeting, and how it differs from it.

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Stephanie Ockerman
Jun 05, 2017 • 6 min read
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Summary

Professional Scrum Trainer Stephanie Ockerman explores the myth that a Daily Scrum is a status meeting. Through her discussion, she captures several areas as to why the Daily Scrum is much more than a status meeting noting that status meetings do not encourage the development teams' empowerment to make decisions and complete ownership of how they do work. Thus Stephanie argues that they inhibit the self-organization that the daily Scrum largely promotes in a development team. Let's watch the video to find out more about how a daily Scrum differs from a status meeting.

Takeaways

  • According to the scrum guide, the purpose of a daily scrum is to inspect the progress towards the sprint goal to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours for the development team and it's time-boxed to 15 minutes and happens every day. On the other hand, a status meeting can be defined as an opportunity where different team members come together and give or update on the progress of the tasks they have been working on to the project manager or a team lead.
  • If we define daily scrum as a status meeting, it means the development team does not experience self-organization. Status meetings do not encourage the development teams' empowerment to make decisions and complete ownership of how they do work.

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