The Daily Scrum Meeting

1. Daily synchronization and planning meeting.
2. Time box is 15 minutes maximum.
3. Held at same place and time everyday.
4. Open to all but only development team can talk in the meeting.
5. Others can only observe.
6. Not a problem solving meeting.

Each team member answers these 3 questions:

1. What was accomplished since last meeting?
2. What will be done before the next meeting?
3. What impediments are blocking this?

Daily Scrum Meeting Rules

1. Hold the Daily Scrum in the same place at the same time every work day. The best time for the meeting is first thing in the day so that Team members think about what they did the day before and what they plan to do today.
2. All Team members are required to attend. If for some reason a Team member can't attend in person, the absent member must either attend by telephone or by having another Team member report on their status.
3. Team members must be prompt. The ScrumMaster starts the meeting at the appointed time, regardless of who is present. Any members who are late pay a fine that is donated to a worthy charity!
4. The ScrumMaster begins the meeting by starting with the person immediately to his or her left and proceeding counter clockwise around the room until everyone has spoken.
5. Each Team member should respond to the following questions:
6. What have you done since the last Daily Scrum regarding this project?
7. What will you do between now and the next Daily Scrum meeting regarding this project?
8. What impedes you from performing your work as effectively as possible?
9. Team members should not digress beyond answering these three questions into issues, designs, discussions of problems, or gossip. The ScrumMaster is responsible for moving the meeting along briskly from person to person.
10. Team members should address the Team. This is not a "Reporting to the ScrumMaster" meeting.
11. During the meeting only one person talks at a time. Everyone else listens without any side conversations
12. Chickens (non Team members) are welcome to attend the Daily Scrum Meetings but they are not allowed to talk, make observations, make faces or otherwise make their presence in the meeting obtrusive.
13. Chickens stand on the periphery of the Team so as not to interfere with the meeting.
14. If too many chickens attend the meeting, the ScrumMaster can limit attendance so that the meeting can remain orderly and focused.
15. Pigs or chickens who cannot or will not conform to the above rules can be excluded from the meeting (chickens) or removed from the Team (pigs).