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Transcript for: Agile, Explained: Daily Standup Meetings

Description: This video takes a closer look at daily standup meetings, a
key teambuilding technique in which teams meet daily, often with
everyone standing up, to encourage brevity and to discuss goals. 

Agile is an approach to software development that encourages
collaboration across an organization and allows requirements to evolve
as a program progresses. 

Related GAO Works: GAO-20-713SP: Science & Tech Spotlight: Agile
Software Development; and GAO-20-590G: Agile Assessment Guide: Best
Practices for Agile Adoption and Implementation  

Released: September 2020

[ Narrator: ] Agile is an approach to software development that
encourages collaboration across an organization. This video describes a
key teambuilding technique of Agile collaboration known as the daily
standup meeting. Agile development teams commonly hold daily meetings,
often with everyone standing up to encourage brevity. The meeting's
intended purposes it to bring the team together, briefly, to discuss
progress and impediments to the team's goals. It should focus on the
questions what did you do yesterday? What do you plan to do today? And
are there any impediments? The team facilitator steers the meeting,
keeping team members on track. Upper management and other stakeholders
may be able to observe the standup meeting; however, they should not
participate because the meeting should not be used as a reporting tool.
If interruptions occur, the team facilitator can suggest that they
schedule a separate meeting to discuss any issues in greater detail. A
standup meeting has several benefits. It helps build team cohesion, it
brings clarity to the team's remaining work items, and it holds team
members accountable to one another.