The daily stand-up is arguably the most successful export of the agile philosophy. It has become a feature of many delivery teams—even non-agile, non-development teams.
In these teams it is mostly used as a morning catch-up session to align team members and share updates related to ongoing work.
As such it is different from the Daily Scrum ceremony which is specific to teams using the Scrum framework. Whilst the Daily Scrum is a meeting for a Scrum development team only, a daily stand-up, as co-opted by non-agile non development teams, encompasses a wider group of participants and often include discussions beyond the famous three questions.
Some teams have experimented with and adopted practices that make their stand-ups useful, efficient and enjoyable. Whilst others perform the meeting in a way that makes it tedious and uninspiring.
Here are some practices to experiment with when performing a daily stand-up as a non-agile, non-development team.