In order to make our "daily scrum" experiment minimally invasive, maximally informative and as much in the scrum spirit as possible, we'll start with the following requirements.

Each team will have a daily google group email interchange that provides each team member to provide answers to the three official questions:

• What have you done since yesterday?
• What are you planning to do today?
• Do you have any problems preventing you from accomplishing your goal? (It is the role of the Scrum Master to facilitate resolution of these impediments.)

You're not allowed to spend more than three minutes composing this email. You're allowed to say "I did nothing today and I plan to do nothing tomorrow" as often as that's appropriate. This is not a time sheet, and not a way to find out whether people are working hard enough. It's intended to keep the team informed of the rate of progress, so that the schedule can be modified if necessary.

You should report daily (not on weekends if you really take days off, which few of us do in these days of instant electronic connectivity and full lives). If possible, try to do it at the same time every day - perhaps when you first log in.

Please remember to use the group email for the daily scrum only for those three minute reports, and to start a new one each day. If you want to reply to something in someone's posting, don't just reply to the message. Start a new thread. (I've noticed this not happening.)

All three teams have started doing this.

We will try it for two weeks and then decide whether to continue.

I will post my own "daily scrum" on my first sprint page.

Let's take as given that one of our activities is attending class, and not mention it in our daily postings.

That doesn't relieve me of the responsibility I've assumed for paying attention to what's going on by reading the wiki and commenting. It does mean more of the comments are likely to be cheerleading.