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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Goal-Oriented Daily Stand-Ups

The most widely used format for the daily scrum, or daily stand-up, is having everyone answer three questions:

What did you do yesterday?
What will you do today?
What is blocking progress?

For a description of the rationale behind using these questions, see this article by Jeff Sutherland.
In addition to these questions, I like to add the following:

What is [...]

There Can Be Only One?

It’s not easy being a product owner. For a lot of you out there it’s a lonely job. It’s also a job that brings with it a lot of responsibility. You are responsible for the vision and the profitability of the product.
That’s not something to be taken lightly.
A recent discussion on the Scrum Development List [...]