Your Daily Scrum

Every morning you wake up, grab your morning beverage and turn to Trello to conduct your Daily Scrum, or Stand Up Meeting if you prefer. You look at what you accomplished yesterday and what you didn’t finish. Those items you didn’t finish get slated for today, unless there is some obstacle preventing you from completing it. If that is the case, your job in the next 24 hours is to clear that obstacle. You also look at your recurring activities such as fitness routines, meditation or reading for growth and make sure you have time to complete those during the day. Finally, you look at your Sprint backlog and decide if you have any extra time to complete anything that is on that list, and if so, you move it into the Doing column.

This whole process should take less than 15 minutes, and in most cases will take much less. You won’t even have time to finish your morning beverage. Yet this short investment of time sets you up for success not just for the rest of the day, but because you do this daily, for the rest of your life! If you have done Scrum for Your Life for even a few months, this has become a habit. And you get to see the results every four weeks at your Sprint Review.

If this has not become a habit yet, start tomorrow morning and commit to doing it every day for the next two weeks. Then make that commitment again. Then again.