Scrum and daily scrum meetings

After my investigations on the methodologies, one particular one attracted me due to its compatibility with my organizational culture - SCURM.

The word ‘scrum’ is taken from the game of rugby where the word means, team members come together in a compact formation to move the ball down the field. The same principles of teamwork of scrum can be used for great success in our project meetings.

So this post I want to talk about the daily scrum meetings. The short, daily scrum meeting is to keep the teams on track and to help the team members get their work done. Often managers are invited to the scrum meetings but they listen rather than speak.

Rules for Scrum meetings.

• Choose a scrum leader to enforce the rules during the sprint

• Hold scrums every day in the same location and at the same time - preferably first thing in the morning
• Each scrum should last only 15 to 30 minutes
• Ask all participants the same three questions: What did you do since the last scrum? What are you going to do between now and the next scrum? Is anything in the way of you doing your work?
• Address issues other than the three questions outside the scrum – this includes suggestions for a team member who's hit a roadblock
• Managers are not allowed to speak
• If a manager or colleague assigns unplanned work to a team member that will throw the team's schedule off track, the scrum leader has the power to excuse the person of the additional work. The work must either be fit into the next sprint or be assigned to someone who's not on the team.
• Your team must have a concrete deliverable for management after the sprint
• Start the process again after each sprint