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The Daily Scrum. A cornerstone of the Scrum framework, this 15-minute time-boxed event is designed to keep the development team synchronized and on track towards the sprint goal. Seems simple enough, right? Yet, even with the best intentions, common pitfalls can turn this vital meeting into a time-wasting exercise.

As a seasoned Agile training provider, we’ve witnessed these Scrum faux pas firsthand. So, let’s dive into the top three mistakes that can derail your Daily Scrum and how to avoid them:

If you’ve never experienced what a good Scrum Master does for a team, it’s easy to misunderstand the role as being administrative: scheduling team meetings, taking notes on impediments, nagging people to update the status of things. When that happens, it’s natural for decision makers to feel that the role of Scrum Master is not a real job, and therefore decide not to invest time or money into it. At that point, one of several anti-patterns typically happens. Here are the ones I see most often:

In this blog, we’ll explore the purpose of three core reports every Scrum Master should understand and use: burndown, burnup, and throughput. We’ll also explain how to read and create each chart.