I wanna make sure that I leave you with some tips on things to do, things that you can do to make this a better event for your team.
And the first big tip I have for you there might be a little controversial to some that have been around for a while.
Kill the three questions.
Now if you're not familiar with what I'm talking about, earlier versions of the Scrum Guide listed out three questions as a possible format for a way to
run a daily scrum.
That was for each person to answer the questions, what did I do yesterday?
What do I plan to do today?
And do have any impediments in my way?
This was intended to be a way for the teams to have a starting place, a jumping off point for conversation about what needed to happen over the next 24 hours.
Yet what it actually became was a self-centered kind of approach to doing the daily scrum.
It was an individualistic mindset, and it actually encouraged teams to think of this as what is my responsibility versus what are we responsible for as
a team?
So my first tip to you is if you're using the three questions and you are not getting a lot out of the Daily Scrum, try a different format.
Try something else.
There are other ways of running the daily scrum, And I highly encourage you to experiment with it.
Ask your team, hey, if we didn't do these three questions, what format could we give for this that would actually be helpful?
What format would help us to plan our day's work, inspect our progress, and change our plan for the next 24 hours?
So that's tip number one, kill the three question.
Now, in the next video, I'm gonna talk to you about the second tip.
Hold on to your seats because the 2nd one is to bench your scrum master.
I'll talk about that in a next one.