The point of the daily scrum is not for each team member to address the 3 questions in order:
- What did I work on yesterday?
- What am I going to work on today?
- What are my obstacles/issues
Please realize that the questions are just a mechanism for ensuring that everyone understands:
- What’s blocked?
- What’s being worked on?
- Who is working on X?
- When will X be done?
- What am I doing/supposed to be doing?
- What are everyone’s top 3 priorities?
- What will be done today?
- What’s ready to test?
- What issues need to be discussed?
- What is critical?
ScrumMasters, your facilitation skills won’t amount to a hill of beans if everyone attending cannot satisfactorily answer (for themselves) these question after the daily stand-up. Don’t get hung up on the procedural nitty-gritty (the rituals); aim for understanding instead.
