What is a Daily Standup (Daily Scrum)?
The daily standup is a 15-minute team synchronization: inspect progress toward the sprint goal, surface impediments, and adjust the day's plan. Classic shape: what I did, what I'll do, what's blocking me — though goal-focused formats ("are we on track for the goal?") are increasingly preferred.
It is the team's meeting — not a status report to the scrum master or manager. When it becomes one, it dies quietly and takes twenty minutes to do it.
Worked example
Tuesday's standup, 9:02: a developer mentions the staging database is refusing connections. The tester was about to burn her morning on the same wall — instead the pair grabs the infra channel right after the meeting and the fix lands by 10. That collision, caught in minute four, is what the ritual is for.