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What are your opinions of sitting vs. standing during the daily
Scrum? What is your rationale behind your opinion? Do you have a
specific experience where one over the other is beneficial? Is it
required to achieve total Scrum compliance?

Thanks!

Mark




Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:48 pm

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What are your opinions of sitting vs. standing during the daily Scrum? What is your rationale behind your opinion? Do you have a specific experience where...
markdavidgraybill
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Dec 26, 2006
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Hi Mark, Standing: the MacDonalds idea of discomfort: get it over and done with and go back to work. Sitting encourages long talks, which is what you don't ...
Hubert Smits
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Dec 27, 2006
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Sitting encourages long talks may be true and a sound generalization, but it may also be tautology. I'll have to study this - thanks for the feedback! Mark ...
Mark Graybill
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Dec 27, 2006
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I too prefer the daily meeting standing for all the reasons that others gave. OTOH I'm working with two teams who sit in a fairly big office/cube. They all...
Mark Striebeck
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Dec 27, 2006
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... Scrum compliance would require trying it both ways and considering the differences in your retrospective. :) I like standing; the standard reason is that...
Justin T. Sampson
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Dec 27, 2006
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Hi Justin, Thanks for this answer: Scrum compliance would require trying it both ways and considering the ... Beautiful! --Hubert...
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Dec 27, 2006
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I like this too. _____ From: scrumdevelopment@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scrumdevelopment@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Hubert Smits Sent: Tuesday, December 26,...
Mark Graybill
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Dec 27, 2006
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You offer some concepts I can explore - thanks! Mark _____ From: scrumdevelopment@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scrumdevelopment@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Justin...
Mark Graybill
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Dec 27, 2006
1:49 am

... As far as I'm aware, Scrum does not dictate the specific technique for a Daily Scrum meeting, only the format of the overall practice. So a "Stand Up...
Paul Hodgetts
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Dec 27, 2006
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Compliance is loosely used as what the scrum trainers in the local area say to do. With regards to being in a circle, I agree. This is important. However, we...
Mark Graybill
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Dec 27, 2006
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Just to add to the conversation and echo Pauls comments here. Originally in my Scrums we would just sit around in the team room and use our task board as the...
Bil Simser
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Dec 27, 2006
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Bil, It doesn't sound like standing up was the only change you made. Some of what you mention could be part of the change process teams typically endure as...
Mark Graybill
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Dec 27, 2006
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Mark, Here's the before and after: Before: -team sat down during Daily Scrums -some team members would read emails or (gasp) answer cell phones -multiple...
Bil Simser
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Dec 27, 2006
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So standing up was only one of the changes. My guess is enforcing adherence to the daily scrum rules was the real catalyst, and standing up simply offered an...
Mark Graybill
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Dec 27, 2006
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I'd talk to the team about it in the next retrospective. This really is a "team norm" from what I have seen. While I always encourage standing UP and having...
Michael Vizdos
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Dec 28, 2006
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