
Daily Scrum also known as daily standup meeting is an important element of the Scrum process. The structure of the meeting is quite rigid and fixed. Everybody has to stand up, meeting should take no longer, than 15 minutes and everybody should answer three questions: "What did you do since the last meeting?", "What are you going to do until the next meeting?", "What impedes you from being more productive?". The purpose of this rigidness is for making sure that daily Scrum is to help team members synchronize between themselves, not to solve problems.
Things to watch during the daily standups are:
"Standup Meetings" is one of the core practices in the Agile Software Development. Instead of meeting the team once in a week in a meeting room, daily 10 minute Standup Meetings are quite popular. Few teams - which do not have a clear idea of Scrum - consider these meetings as personally intrusive and intimidating. But what one can gain via Standup meetings are many fold then conventional meetings.