Do we need huddle call and daily scrums?

[Vishal Vandre]

In my organization, Few Scrum Masters take daily huddle call in morning & daily Scrum calls in the evening.  I only take daily scrum call. Should I start huddle calls ? 

Your opinions plz

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Vishal Vandre 

What is the problem your peer scrum masters were trying to solve with multiple standups/huddles per day for a single team?  For example, was it people in different time zones, "progress reporting", hand-offs of work, etc.?

In addition to the suggestions from John and Nic, I find this symptom can occur when a team does not communicate well, and so they rely on a standup for all collaboration.  This may also happen if the development practices force in-person discussion to coordinate work/code changes.  For these and other "smells", I recommend team discussion to get to the root cause and create decisions on how to improve.

Kind regards,
Bill

[John Funk]

Absolutely no reason for two of these a day. If you are running your daily standup as you should, that should be sufficient. Let people alone and let them do their work. 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The principal behind the scrum standup is that your team all get an idea of what everyone is doing.  Scrum standups as defined do that.  So do huddles.

So I'd say "no".  A daily update is important to the scrum team, but you don't need two.  As long as everyone updates and everyone listens, it's fine.   And it doesn't matter what you call it, standup, huddle, daily update.