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Agile Testing - Daily Scrum

Daily Scrum -  'I did this, I will do this, I have/have no impediment'. OK, next, 'I did this, I will do this, I have/have no impediment'. OK, next......and the 'STATUS' meeting continues until all are done. Sounds familiar, right??? It is very common to see daily scrum being run as status meeting, as if the entire team is reporting to the Scrum Master. The 15 min timebox event is meant to synchronize the team's work and plan for the next 24 hrs and not as a status meeting. May be this has got to do with the way the daily scrum is structured which requires the team members answer those 3 questions. It is interesting to see how the daily scrum goes when the Scrum Master is not present.  Daily Scrum is one of the important 'Inspect and Adapt' events of Scrum wherein the team inspects its progress of achieving the sprint goal, any impediments in the progress and adapt if the plan will change. A good practice is to do this as a self-organized tea