The Daily Scrum is:

Daily Scrum
Each day during the sprint, a project status meeting occurs. This is called a “daily scrum”, or “the daily standup”. This meeting has specific guidelines:

• The meeting starts precisely on time.
• All are welcome, but only “pigs” may speak
• The meeting is timeboxed to 15 minutes
• The meeting should happen at the same location and same time every day

During the meeting, each team member answers three questions:

• What have you done since yesterday?
• What are you planning to do today?
• Do you have any problems preventing you from accomplishing your goal? (It is the role of the Scrum Master to facilitate resolution of these impediments. Typically this should occur outside the context of the Daily Scrum so that it may stay under 15 minutes.)

We are a remote team and we had to tweak it a little to fit our needs:

• Every morning at 10:00am we go to a Skype group chat that is only used for our Daily Scrum Meetings
• Each one of us says what they did yesterday, what they plan to accomplish today and mention any problems they have.
• Problems are then discussed after the meeting.
• The meeting never lasts more than 20 minutes.

Results are positive so far. First of all, we feel that someone hears what we do everyday. If we have any problems or questions we can ask our fellow team members for help. We are committed because we promise a daily plan and we want to deliver it. We stay focused. All that, by spending 20-30 everyday to plan our day and present that plan to our colleagues.

References:

1. Scrum (development)