Appreciate the OP is about whether the stand up is for the scrum master/project manager etc or for the team members. Hopefully it is both, and mostly the later.

Appreciate the OP is about whether the stand up is for the scrum master/project manager etc or for the team members. Hopefully it is both, and mostly the later. Also see in the other threads (and discussion in general) that mistakes the standups as for reporting your status to managers. That may be required in some organisations or partially, but not in most. But I would view a good stand up one that does NOT require each team member to in turn state the old: "what they did yesterday, what will do toady, any impediments". Instead you hope project leadership trust their team members and instead focus on the tasks. In order of task priority a participant in that story can quicklyy broadcast if anything has changed with a task/story, no need for details of what happened yesterday, no need for whom did what etc. Then if any impediments for that story, escalations, anything else etc. And just quickly rattle through them to make sure focus is maintained on getting the tasks flowing through to delivered. TL;DR focus on tasks not people reporting. I ranted about this some years ago... http://blog.flurdy.com/2013/04/i-dont-care-what-you-did-yesterday-i.html http://blog.flurdy.com/2013/04/i-dont-care-what-you-did-yest...