Overview

On each day of a sprint, the team holds a timeboxed (15 minutes) daily meetings. Meetings are typically held in the same location and at the same time each day. Ideally the daily scrums are held in the morning as they help set the context for the coming day's work. This inspect-and-adapt activity is sometimes referred to as the daily stand-up because of the common practice of everyone standing up during the meeting to help promote brevity.

All team members are required to attend the daily scrum. Anyone else, (for example, a departmental VIP, a salesperson, or a developer from another project) is allowed to attend but is there only to listen. This makes the daily scrums an excellent way for a Scrum team to disseminate status information – if you're interested in hearing where things are at, attend that day's meeting.

During the daily scrum each team member provides answers to the following three questions:

What did you do yesterday?
What will you do today?
Are there any impediments in your way?

The daily scrum is not a status update meeting in which a boss is collecting information about who is behind schedule. Rather, it is a meeting in which team members make commitments to each other. In cases where the Scrum Master cannot remove these impediments directly himself (e.g., usually the more technical issues) he still takes responsibility for making sure someone on the team does quickly resolve the issue.