The Daily Scrum is a like a lighthouse. When navigating rough seas, complex circumstances with inevitable ups and downs, it’s easy to get caught adrift or hit rocks. A Scrum Team needs a reliable light to guide them. Visible in all (weather) conditions, a lighthouse offers stability and direction. It can guide us through storms, consistently leading the way forward to safe havens.
When bad weather, stormy seas, or tempest threaten progress. The Daily Scrum should stand firm and do its job: offering guidance, support, direction, and hope. It’s an opportunity to encourage each other to work through challenges. The Daily Scrum may offer kindness, truth, and the assurance that whatever you face, you aren’t facing it alone.
When seas are calm, and the sun shines bright, the lighthouse may appear like a meaningless pillar. But...
“There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity on a scale only gods can summon. It hurls itself at the island, sending spray right over the top of the lighthouse, biting pieces off the cliff. And the sound is a roaring of a beast whose anger knows no limits. Those are the nights the light is needed most.” - M. L. Stedman — The Light Between Oceans.
2,5 minutes: Invite our sailors to write down the benefits of a Daily Scrum individually. (One benefit per sticky note).
2,5 minutes: Now, let’s collect all the sticky notes and consolidate them. Group duplicates and similar stickies.