What is Agile Daily Stand-Up? | Agile Methodology Tutorial

What is Agile Daily Stand-Up? | Agile Methodology Tutorial

In this article, you will learn about the agile daily stand-up.

What is Daily Stand Up?

The daily stand-up is a daily meeting in which agile team members share the status of their work. This meeting is rough about 12 to 18 minutes on average. Each member of the team has to answer the three questions in the team meeting i.e 

1. What did they do yesterday?
2. What are they going to take up today?
3. The problem they are facing while performing any task. Anything that is blocking them to move further in the task. 

The daily stand-up is the review meeting of the day-to-day task that helps in keeping the record of the work. The meeting of team members can be scheduled with the product owner at different times to discuss the work progress. The participants only stand in the meeting which helps in wrapping up the meeting quickly within a few minutes.

What is Agile Daily Stand-Up?

The agile daily stand-up is termed as the day-to-day meetings in which the project members of the agile team share their work status with the entire project team. The daily meeting of the agile team discusses the regular updates as well as the problem faced by any of the team members. Its main focus is on addressing the issues and trying to resolve the bugs on a priority basis. It is a regular practice even if the agile team is based in any of the office locations. 

Importance of Stand-Up:

The importance of having daily meetings in agile is as follows:

• The entire team can evaluate the progress report regularly (daily).
• The team member discusses all the commitments and progress they made for the day.
• The members can also figure out what they can deliver to the customer as per the plan made in the iteration. 
• Stand-up provides visibility to the entire team if any delay is occurring during the issues.

Who Attends a Stand-Up?

• The project owner, scrum master, and the delivery team should attend the stand-up every day. 
• Customers and stakeholders are encouraged to join the daily stand-up where they can observe the work progress. Moreover, they don't need to join every day.
• The scrum master has to create a note for each team member's issues and problems they are facing.

It can be done in different ways depending upon the working time zone. Each team of the project can also have its separate stand-up meeting. There are various tools available for daily stand-ups.