I’ve been thinking a lot about daily scrum lately. It’s tricky because I’m trying to negotiate the need for team cohesion with the needs of individual team members. Regular daily scrums are especially difficult for team members who are more than 2-3 hours ahead or behind the companies primary time zone.

I would like to try something different. Instead of running Daily Standup, I would like to try doing Daily Writeups. A Daily Writeup is done by each individual team member before starting any work. The team member must share what s/he completed day before, will complete today and where the s/he needs support.

One possible bonus from doing this might be that the team will begin to rely more on the project management tool for documentation.

I guess we’ll try it and see.