Is Daily Scrum Really Needed? Well, It Depends.

Don’t stick to a framework, adapt it to real contexts instead

A Mentee’s Problem

Yesterday, I had an online call with a mentee in Belgium, and she had filled several questions on the form. One of them just caught my eyes, and I couldn’t wait to ask further situations.

Developers don’t like meetings.

Well, I just kept asking what did it mean? They dislike the frequency of meetings? Or they feel some meetings are irrelevant to what they do? Or Anything else?

She just replied：I followed the Scrum framework to hold daily scrum, but developers thought that occupied their time to work.

Well, I knew she just came across a novice problem that I ‘d ever done. Let’s think about a question.

What kinds of problems is the daily scrum going to solve?

If you’d ever read the Scrum guide, we know the event helps the team checks the status quo of their work, alignment with the sprint goal, and impediments to remove.

Therefore we know the event tries to solve the problem of infrequent synchronization, inspect, and adapt to current status.

What if that is still not a problem for the team?

Maybe the team has had an existing mechanism to solve the problems we just mentioned. Any additional forces just don’t help them with this but take the team into chaos. Well, I am not in her team. I just asked her to think about the real condition if they really needed. If the team don’t think that is a problem, don’t use it.

We follow the framework, but adapt it to real contexts.

For many newbies, they often stick to the framework but find something weird and don’t know how to adjust. This is a typical example. But I think it a necessary pace for agile evangelists to go through.

After clarifying her conditions, she came to realize what should be adapted to the event. Cadence review might be sufficient for them.

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