Facilitating the Daily Scrum

Event Purpose: Developers inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal. Output of the Daily Scrum is a plan for the next working day 

Facilitator Focus: Enable an atmosphere where the team focuses on  delivering quality, commitment (Sprint Goal) and addressing impediments. Avoid status updates. Observe and question when needed. Ensure team focus on the Sprint Goal.

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Sprint Review Technique: Videos

Erik Weber

File this one under: “how do you do Sprint Reviews when you have lots of teams?”  Indeed, the traditional presentation format gets long, boring, and ineffective when you have more than a handful of teams presenting at a Sprint Review.  From the point of view of an executive, this is exponentially tr...

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February 18, 2015

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Test module

This is test module for testing things. It has a bunch on nonsensical content within some random layouts. It looks truly terrible but it is a handy playground of sorts.

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Example Facilitation Techniques: 

• Want to increase focus on the Sprint Goal during the Daily Scrum? 
  • Try using powerful questions:
    • How to Use Powerful Questions Virtually
    • Daniel Stillman: Designing Powerful Questions to help you Coach, Create, Connect and Lead
       
• Want to avoid the Daily Scrum turning into a status update? 
  • Try a Daily Scrum format that emphasizes the focus on the Sprint Goal 
     
• Is the team going into too much detail during the Daily Scrum? 
  • Try introducing ELMO (Enough, Let's Move On). - Participants either say "Elmo" or hold up an Elmo doll to encourage the group to suspend current discussion and move to the next topic.