Question: The CEO of our small company (14) asked me to introduce some elements of Scrum into the working process of our development team.

Problem is: the piece he would like to see introduced is not really the main part. It mainly the daily scrum meeting.

The problem is that to introduce Scrum completly would force him to change his own work (constitue backlog, define content of sprints, and so on), and he obviously doesn't want that...

I can see the benefits of introducing these small bits of Scrum. Better communication of the team, mainly, as we have no CTO, it's rather a self-organizing team anyway.

I have also some hopes that ones we have begun with Scrum, we could further integrate the method.

Do you have seen something like this yet? How does it turn out?

Answer: 
Yes. Been there, seen that.

Scrum daily meeting makes sense in Scrum because:

* all the team members are interested in making taks done so they track progress and impediments
* there is often a possibility of switching (one person finishes what other started) so they need to track progress and impediments
* they need to use "resources" wisely, so they usually meet more than once a day to switch around tasks and help each other and share knowledge, so they need to know what is going on in team

Without Scrum it sucked (in case I've seen) because:

* each developer was working on his own tasks and could live without knowing what others do (I will do my part)
* they had no reason to speak about impediments as others wasn't interested in helping (they did THEIR tasks), so all the stories was succesfull ones
* they saw no reason in doing daily standups (nobody consulted the situation with them) so most of the time they was saying "I am doing the same I was doing yesterday and I will do it probably for the next two weeks, thank you".

I am not saying standups will not work for you. But have you (I mean managers) asked yourself a questions:

* **why do we want to do it**?
* **what do we expect to get**?
* **is it the right choice to get what we want**?
* **did we spoke with the team about it**?
* **what are the team's suggestions?**

It is probably wise to know the patient's illness before administering drug-which-should-work.
Seems like he's really missing the point of Scrum. Just the Daily Scrum is like having just the foam of a cappuccino. Granted it is an integral part of Scrum and it is a great litmus test for how well the team is working together but on it's own it just doesn't make sense. Maybe a communication problem. I wonder if you could go back to your CEO and ask him some open-ended questions about what it is about Scrum that he finds appealing.