Stand Up Meetings

Definition:

A daily team meeting, commonly at or near the start of the day, to coordinate efforts among team members.

Features:

• • Same time every day

  • Entire Team Attends

  • Limit to 15 minutes

  • Contents Vary:

Scrum Teams often report: What you accomplished Yesterday / What you will do today / What impediments do you have

Other teams focus on: What's left to finish the work in progress? Any blockers?

• • Take any other discussions: "off-line"

  • Some teams pass a "token", which serves the purpose of identifying the one person who is speaking.

Support Pillars:

Collaboration

Steps to Mastery:

• • Questioning : Doesn't see the value of standups. Regularly conducts long conversations during meetings.

  • Learning : Sees value in standups. Occasionally needs to be reminded about meeting format format.

  • Practicing : Makes an effort to keep their contributions within the meeting format.

  • Journeying : Consistently keeps their contributions within the meeting format.

  • Mastering : Helps keep meetings focused. Helps form mini-teams of concerned parties for offline discussions.

  • Contributing : Teaches or writes about solving complex standup meeting challenges.

Resources:

It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns of Daily Stand-up Meetings, by Martin Fowler