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Pretty much every Agile practice is a victim of Semantic Diffusion. The Daily Stand-up isn't a status update. It's purpose is to be a micro re-planning sessio
by richliss 7y ago
Pretty much every Agile practice is a victim of Semantic Diffusion.
The Daily Stand-up isn't a status update.
It's purpose is to be a micro re-planning session.
The team has a sprint goal agreed by the Product Owner and them at the start of the sprint and they're supposed to achieve it by the end of the sprint.
The daily stand-up following the 3-question pattern is to validate what they have done yesterday towards the sprint goal, what they are doing today towards the sprint goal, any impediments that are impacting them and most importantly "are we still going to meet the sprint goal?". If the answer to the "are we still going to meet the sprint goal" is "no" then the team re-plans and may need to bring in the Product Owner to confirm the Sprint Goal can still be satisfied with any suggested changes.
If your team's daily stand-up doesn't reflect that then you're not doing a daily stand-up as it is supposed to be done and of course in that case YMMV. Yours may even be better or more appropriate for your team but it kind of ceases to be "the daily stand-up" and comparable to others.
- jkingsbery 7y agoAgreed. As the original article said, stand-ups are useful in a run-up to a release. If you're releasing every week or two, a release should never be far out.