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The only daily standup meeting agenda you will ever need
Arjun Rajkumar
October 06, 2024
You may wonder why you need an agenda for a daily standup meeting? Daily standups are short and happen everyday - so why do you need an agenda? Well, without a daily standup agenda, the standups will not remain short. It will go on and on and become less useful for you and your whole team.
Here are the most important things you need to run your daily standup meetings:
1. Keep your meetings short. Highlight this to everyone and if needed, you can even bring a physical timer to the meeting. This way everyone in your team is aware to keep their answers short and relevant.
2. Ask the two important questions. Ideally, you only need everyone in your team to answer these two questions. 1). What did you work on today? 2) Are there any blockers stopping you from getting your work done? Meetings can go on for long if other questions and answers are asked in the meeting.
3. Avoid all related discussions in the standup meeting. If someone has a blocker, you can briefly discuss it. But assign people to discuss this properly after the standup meeting. Your agenda should be to handle all discussions only between the concerned people after the standup is over. You should be holding a weekly update which is different from this standup meeting - where people can go into more detail about their work.
4. Respect everyone's time. Normally what ends up happening is the PM or some developers turn up late, and everyone has to wait until they show up and finish. Your agenda should be clear on this. Everyone turns up at the allotted time without any excuses (unless there is an emergency). If someone is missing, dont amke the whole team wait for them. Continue your daily dtandup meeting without them - and they can update you later.
Start your daily standup meeting agenda with these four steps, and you'll find that your scrum meetings remain short, useful and productive to the entire team.
Here are the most important things you need to run your daily standup meetings:
1. Keep your meetings short. Highlight this to everyone and if needed, you can even bring a physical timer to the meeting. This way everyone in your team is aware to keep their answers short and relevant.
2. Ask the two important questions. Ideally, you only need everyone in your team to answer these two questions. 1). What did you work on today? 2) Are there any blockers stopping you from getting your work done? Meetings can go on for long if other questions and answers are asked in the meeting.
3. Avoid all related discussions in the standup meeting. If someone has a blocker, you can briefly discuss it. But assign people to discuss this properly after the standup meeting. Your agenda should be to handle all discussions only between the concerned people after the standup is over. You should be holding a weekly update which is different from this standup meeting - where people can go into more detail about their work.
4. Respect everyone's time. Normally what ends up happening is the PM or some developers turn up late, and everyone has to wait until they show up and finish. Your agenda should be clear on this. Everyone turns up at the allotted time without any excuses (unless there is an emergency). If someone is missing, dont amke the whole team wait for them. Continue your daily dtandup meeting without them - and they can update you later.
Start your daily standup meeting agenda with these four steps, and you'll find that your scrum meetings remain short, useful and productive to the entire team.