I often get attendees at our Scrum Training ask me for my preferred format for a Daily Scrum. I don’t know that I have a preferred format, but definitely not “What I did yesterday, what I plan to do today and discussion about Blockers”. However, if I can get you to reflect on the purpose of the Scrum Guide:
… to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the Sprint Backlog as necessary, adjusting the upcoming planned work.
The commitments contained in the Scrum Artifacts are arguably one of the important element of the Scrum Framework; these commitments when deployed as per the intentions of the scrum framework contributes to increasing the effectiveness of the scrum team.
I was asked to help out a Scrum Team that did not see much value out of a well-crafted Sprint Goal for their Sprints. In the sprint planning, the team would rollover every product backlog item (PBI) that was not completed in the last sprint, and the team would add a few more PBIs from their backlog on the ask of the team manager, who also attended the Sprint Planning regularly.
