Your Team's Daily Stand Up Is Not Only About Three Questions? (Many Teams Have Trouble With This?)

Get Up, Stand Up.

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. Daily Standup that is A wise rastafarian once sang the words, "Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights." Yes, the famous singer I'm referencing is Bob Marley, a man with a number of fantastic reggae songs.
The chorus of this particular song "Get Up, Stand Up" is definitely something that those practicing Scrum can learn a thing or two from.
In Scrum, the Daily Standup or Daily Scrum is an organizational event meant to synchronize the development team working on a project.

Customarily the meeting lasts 15 minutes and discusses what has been accomplished, if any obstacles interfered with the previous objective meant to be accomplished, if any obstacles will interfere with the next day's objective, and what should be accomplished by the next day.
Each person, on the development team gets up or stands up and discusses their objectives, and obstacles.
In doing so, as a whole, the development team is responsible for transitioning the Product Backlog into an Increment.

This all under the eye of the Scrum Master. "The stand up for your rights," part may not be clear at the moment but let me now explain.
The importance of each member of the development team opening up about what they do and issues they encounter in their daily work allows for the whole team to be aware.
If there is no awareness, none of those obstacles can be dealt with.
If there is no awareness there can be no resolution.

Additionally, without standing up for what you do, it can be perceived unclear as to what you do.
Therefore as we often like to emphasize in our articles, communication is key! Communication is even more important when you have a distributed team.
The daily for a distributed team becomes the time the baton is passed.
Don't fall into the trap of foregoing the daily standup.
The excuse that there isn't enough time or the daily takes too long, is simply just an excuse. As a scrum master you should ensure that teams stick to the time box.

The Daily Standup or Daily Scrum can be an incredibly useful when it is used properly.

Maintaining the 15 minute limit on the entire meeting and using the process to its full troubleshooting abilities can both expedite and improve project advancement. Yet again, in the words of Bob Marley, "Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!" Change Happens! Resistance is futile! Pave the way.