It's not a status meeting, it's a synchronization meeting.
The daily scrum is designed for team members to synchronize their effort.
You don't want two designers working on the same screen without each knowing about it.
Similarly, someone better be working a critical task if the sprint ends tomorrow.
But if a meeting is for the team to members synchronized their work with one another, what does the scrumm master do?
Should the Scrum Master even attend?
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Yes, i do think the Scum Master should attend.
i know the scrum guide says they should only attend if working on Sprint backlog items, but all the best teams I've worked with have had Scumm Masters
who attended their daily scrums.
The meeting is not, however, for the Scrum Master.
That's why it's not a status meeting.
If it were a Status Meeting, we'd see the scrum master call on each person, probably ask about their progress plans and problems,
and take notes so they could follow up the next day to be sure everything got done.
Wait, we do see that happen a lot.
Those scrummasters need to let go and let their teams conduct their own daily scrums.
The meeting is for the team.
Let them decide how to run it.
Sure, if the Team is new to Scrum, a good scrummaster will coach the teams on how run an effective daily Scum.
They'll coach them to avoid problem solving, to keep updates brief, focus on what was accomplished rather than on everything they spent time on,
and so on.
As the team learns how to conduct its own meeting, the Scrum Master can and should fade out of leading the meeting.
But why then do I want the scrum master to participate?
Because it's the best place to hear about impediments.
In daily scrums, developers are expected to communicate anything slowing them down.
Scum Masters will be expected help resolve those impediment.
So, scrumm masters should be there to here about them.
Also, participating in daily scrums shows a scrum master's support for the team.
I prefer that over a Scrum Master with the attitude of being too busy to participate in something the rest of the teams expected to do.
A good Scum Master will remember, though, that the daily Sc rum exists for team members to share their progress and synchronize effort.
Do your daily Scrum meetings feel like a team synchronizing their effort?
Or do they feel more like status meetings conducted for the benefit of the Scum Master?
Please let me know in the comments.
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