Keep your team on track and focused on sprint goals
Use this daily scrum meeting template to help your scrum team provide updates on what they’re working on, share what they plan to work on, and raise any concerns or questions.
A Daily Scrum Meeting, also known as a daily stand-up, is a fundamental ceremony in Agile and Scrum methodologies. It's a short and focused meeting where the team gathers to synchronize activities, share progress, and identify any obstacles.
The goal is to foster collaboration, maintain transparency, and ensure everyone is aligned towards achieving the sprint goal.
Understand and track team progress in the current sprint
Build clarity on the workday’s tasks and remove any roadblocks
Hold a quick check-in to make sure the team feels supported and enabled
Improve problem-solving within the team and improve teamwork
Start the meeting by checking in with a quick icebreaker. Each team member should add their name on a sticky note. You can personalize each sticky note with a color to help visualize progress.
To keep the space tidy, write down the date, sprint number, and sprint goal at the top of the scrum board.
Then, the appointed scrum master asks each team member to answer the key questions:
What did you work on yesterday?
What will you work on today?
Do you have any blockers?
Then, import the tasks and issues for the current sprint into the sprint backlog section.
Import all tasks and issues into the current sprint in the “sprint backlog” section. This is only temporary to show all the tasks and key action items at hand.
Tip: Change the color of the task to the color of the person responsible for the task.
Move tasks that are currently being worked on into the “In progress” column.
Move any tasks that have been finished into the “Complete” column.
Move any blocked tasks into the “Blocked” column.
If any blockers are identified, plan a meeting outside the scrum to follow up and discuss the issue with relevant team members.
Set a consistent time and place: Keeping mindful of team time zones for remote teams, establish a time earlier in the workday to hold the daily standup meeting. Consistency helps establish a routine and ensures everyone can attend without conflicts.
Timebox your agenda: Because your daily scrum should only be about 15 minutes, every second matters. Use Mural’s timer feature to easily set enough time aside for a check-in and status updates.
Run asynchronous agile meetings: Some teams find it easier to reduce meetings and give more time for deep work. Share the link to the scrum meeting in Mural and give teams the opportunity to add status updates on their own time.
Integrate Jira to export tasks from Mural: You can easily integrate Jira to prioritize and plan sessions. Additionally, you can import tasks into Mural from Jira and then export tasks from Mural back to Jira.
Delegate tasks to team members: Use sticky note tags to assign and notify team members who are responsible for each task. This helps team members understand who owns a particular part of a project, which improves accountability within your team.
Embrace continuous improvement: After a few sprints, assess the effectiveness of your daily stand-ups. Seek feedback from the team to ideate improvements and adapt the process to better suit your team's needs.
The most common scrum meetings are:
Daily scrum meetings: Held every day at the same time, usually by a team pursuing a project in a sprint. The aim is to let team members know the progress of their tasks and projects.
Sprint planning: Normally, a meeting to discuss the next sprint.
Sprint retrospective: A meeting used to discuss the previous outcome and task cadence of the last sprint. It’s a good opportunity to work on improvements and change the process for upcoming sprints.
Daily Scrum meetings (also referred to as daily stand-up meetings) are a common Agile ceremony where all team members can quickly share an update on progress and raise any blockers.
Each meeting is short and follows the same format. Use this template to track progress toward your sprint goal and resolve any issues that are inhibiting your team's work.
Generally, scrums are held and directed by a “scrum master” or a team member dedicated to scrum project management. A scrum master facilitates the order of conversation and keeps the cadence of updates.
Product managers should also be involved in scrum meetings to understand the scope of a project and completed tasks and to be proactive if any roadblocks or challenges appear.
Lastly, the scrum team involved in the sprint’s project must all be invited so that the whole team is kept up to date, which avoids any miscommunication or misunderstandings.
Daily scrums inform team members of progress on a specific project of a sprint. So this is an opportunity for your team to communicate progress on their tasks. Only tasks that are relevant to the team and the current sprint should be mentioned — avoid the mention of any individual tasks. This is because you want to keep the meeting brief and in motion.
The task should be specific and include the amount completed so everyone on the team understands the state of progress.
For example:
DevOps: “Successfully integrated Stripe”
Marketing: “Created and sent the monthly campaign requirements to the design team for August”
Team members should say what task they want to accomplish today. That way, team members understand the expected progress and can hold each other accountable for task achievement the next day.
For example:
DevOps: “Test communication API with platform”
Marketing: “Write landing page copy, and send it for review”
Are there any roadblocks that are expected to delay progress? Is a team member still waiting for authorization or approval? Other helpful things to bring up are personal limitations, technology limitations, or team dependencies.
When roadblocks are brought to the table, teams can work together to find a solution or navigate procedures to avoid delays.
For example:
Marketing: “I’m going to be out of the office next Friday. Can we have budget approval by Thursday?”
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