Who must attend the Daily Scrum? (choose the best answer)

The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute event specifically for the Developers of the Scrum Team. The primary purpose of this event is for the Developers to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the Sprint Backlog as necessary, adjusting the upcoming planned work. While other members of the Scrum Team, like the Product Owner and Scrum Master, may attend if invited by the Developers, their presence is not mandatory. The event is owned by the Developers to plan their work for the next 24 hours, making their attendance the only mandatory requirement for the event to be effective and serve its purpose as defined in the Scrum framework.

A. The Daily Scrum is not for the Product Owner or Scrum Master; their attendance is optional and not required.
B. The Scrum Master ensures the event occurs but is not a required participant; the event is for the Developers.
D. The Product Owner's attendance is not mandatory. The event is for the Developers to synchronize and plan.
E. The Scrum Team includes the Product Owner and Scrum Master, whose attendance is not mandatory, making this option incorrect.

1. Schwaber

K.

& Sutherland

J. (2020). The Scrum Guide. Scrum.org. Page 9. The guide states

"The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute event for the Developers of the Scrum Team... If the Product Owner or Scrum Master are actively working on items in the Sprint Backlog

they participate as Developers." This clarifies that only Developers are the required attendees in their capacity as Developers.

2. Stray

V.

Sjøberg

D. I.

& Dybå

T. (2016). The daily stand-up meeting: A grounded theory study. Journal of Systems and Software

114

101-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2016.01.004. In their analysis (Section 4.1.1)

the study identifies the core participants as the "team members" (i.e.

the Developers) who are performing the development work

reinforcing that the meeting is primarily for this group to coordinate their activities.

3. MIT OpenCourseWare. (2016). 6.170 Software Studio

Lecture 2: Agile and Scrum. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The course materials describe the Daily Scrum as a meeting for the development team to synchronize

consistent with the Scrum Guide's definition of required participants being the Developers.