The Daily Scrum

Once the Sprint is in progress, the Scrum team meets each day to coordinate their work. This meeting is called the Daily Scrum.

The Scrum team will congregate around the Scrum Board and discuss what they've achieved since they last met, what they will be working on until they next meet, and whether there are any problems, or if there is anything in their way.

The Development Team will update the board as necessary, moving tasks from left to right as applicable. This Scrum Board’s primary function is to help the team to coordinate their work, ascertain progress, and quickly uncover any assumptions or identify any risks in their plan. The team should remain focused on meeting the Sprint Goal; as such, this is a key inspect-and-adapt meeting for the team.

The meeting is timeboxed to 15 minutes to keep it purposeful and focused. Although the Scrum Guide doesn't indicate this should be a standing meeting, many Scrum teams will stand for their Daily Scrum. This is something that's been adopted from the Extreme Programming community. The aim of making it a standing meeting is to keep it short; people are less inclined to talk at length if they're standing.