
Learn to navigate and facilitate a perfect daily stand up, turning it into a compass for sprint health, avoiding anti-patterns, and applying practical, varied facilitation approaches.
Facilitate a daily standup by helping the Scrum team sync on progress, identify blockers, and coordinate needs in a concise 15-minute meeting that informs sprint adjustments.
Learn to run the daily stand up every working day with the core Scrum team—product owner, Scrum master, and development team—and use the three update questions, inviting others as needed.
Update the Agile board before daily standups to reflect current work, serve as an information radiator for the team and organization, and address backlog changes, acceptance testing, and blockers.
Explore aspects of a daily stand up, including timing for distributed teams and role of attendees. Learn which questions fit the 15-minute sprint focus and why minutes are unnecessary.
Identify common daily stand up antipatterns such as storytelling, in-depth blocker troubleshooting, and deep dive design discussions, and learn concise interventions using the three questions to keep updates focused.
Prevent common daily stand up anti-patterns for geographically distributed teams by enforcing one agile team, one stand up across time zones, and timely, focused updates.
Discover facilitation techniques for daily stand ups in person or virtually, using round-robin and pass-the-ball methods to boost participation and guide updates.
Explore five daily stand-up facilitation techniques, including pick a number, walk the board, and alphabetically, with in-person and virtual variations and prepared index cards.
Master how to facilitate productive, timely, high quality daily standup ceremonies as a scrum master or facilitator within an agile team, navigating meetings intelligently and tactfully.
Welcome to the 1st and the only course on Udemy dedicated to teaching facilitation of a Daily Stand up meeting. A Daily Stand Up is the nerve center of operations for a sprint. It allows a team become aware if they are heading in the right direction towards their sprint commitments and what course corrections they need to make to keep heading in the right direction. A Daily Stand Up is supposed to be facilitated intentionally so that specific goals that are relevant to a Daily Stand Up can be achieved. Without achieving these goals, a Daily Stand Up meeting will become just like any other generic status call.
A good Daily Stand Up meeting is supposed to be a light weight, focussed and fast-paced event. But, alas, reality is anything but. Most Daily Stand Up meetings have turned into sluggish and protracted events filled with long-winded, and sometimes, obscure statements, In other words, such so called Daily Stand Ups are a far cry from the real thing. In fact, I have lost count of the number of times I have heard Scrum team members complain about how lengthy and burdensome their Daily Stand Up meetings have become.
This course will teach you not only how to facilitate a productive, fluent and timely Daily Stand Up ceremony but it will also teach you the appropriate expectations from and conduct at a Daily Stand Up. So, whether you are new to a Daily Stand Up or if your Daily Stand Up meetings are not going well, this is the course for you.
In other words, this course aims to teach the know-how and skills needed to facilitate a Daily Stand Up masterfully and how to to navigate a Daily Stand Up tactfully with the correct expectations and conduct.