Andrew MacNeill - AKSEL Solutions

The Theory A stand-up is a 15 minute meeting, based on three questions: 1. What did you do? 2. What are you working on? 3. What's preventing you from getting it done? You have someone who keeps the meeting focused (the scrum master) and you don't let non-team members involved. This is the concept of chickens and pigs . Who are the pigs? Anyone who is directly working on the project - they have some skin in the game. Tasks involved are  chosen from the backlog. A key part of this process is that there is no dictation of tasks. Everyone magically chooses what they want to work on. Everyone sits (or stands), looking at some kind of white board (where electronic or physical) and they all jump up choosing what they want to work on. So now you can easily say "What did you do?" Tell us what you did the day before. Tell us what you're currently working on. Any problems? If there were any, you then discussed them outside of the meeting. The Reality Our sc...