Is it acceptable to skip the Daily Scrum meeting?
TL;DR: It is acceptable, but a poor idea!
Celina, a Scrum Master and Agile Coach, posted on LinkedIn that she would skip the daily stand-up meeting if the team consistently failed to see its value.
'I would even go so far as to cancel the entire series if the team did not see the value of the daily.'
I wouldn't!
In fact, I consider the daily Scrum event to be one of the most important events in Scrum.
It is the central control tool for the development team during the sprint, enabling them to: – communicate their current status; – discuss the day's work; and – most importantly, align with the sprint goal.
Scrum Masters are servant leaders who also hold 'domain leadership', meaning they can – and, in my opinion, should – mark important events in their Scrum domain as mandatory and enforce them.
If absences become the norm, we Scrum Masters must intervene. At the very latest, we must intervene when the team simply stops doing Scrum, despite all the love for self-organisation.
'A line must be drawn here,' to quote Jean-Luc Picard, one of the greatest servant leaders of all time.
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