Daily Scrums: Synchronization Meetings, Not Status Meetings

The daily scrum: It's not a status meeting, it's a synchronization meeting. The term status meeting conjures images of sitting around a table with each person giving an update to a project manager while everyone else feigns interest (In reality, they're either mentally preparing for their own upcoming update or wondering how much longer the meeting will last.)

In contrast, the daily scrum meeting is designed for team members to synchronize their effort. You don't want two designers working on the same screen without each knowing about it. Similarly, someone better be working on a critical task if the sprint ends tomorrow.

Done well a daily scrum meeting is energizing. People leave the meeting enthused about the progress they're making as a team, or inspired to work together to move something to done. This won't happen every day for every team member, of course, but if team members dread going to the daily scrum, that is usually a sign of trouble.

So if the meeting is for the team members to synchronize their work with one another, what does the Scrum Master do?

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