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The key is to ensure every item on your board (hope you have a board) is actionable and deliverable by the end of your sprint. If a task is missing requirements or artifacts - move it back. If a task can not result it a fully tested and deployable piece of software - break it down.

And lastly, human beings suck at estimating time - base your first sprint on hours or timeframes and then move to a point based system.

Good luck

I was assuming the OP was talking about the daily standup meeting?

You talk about what you did yesterday, and what you're going to do today. The meeting shouldn't take more than 15 minutes. Assuming you're going 'by the book'.

I came from a scrum team that consistently pushed the limits of a scrum meeting by talking about way too much and taking way too long. Thats a people and process issue though.

Hey thanks everyone for the advice. I was indeed referring to the Daily. It went good. I spoke for about 60 seconds, although the scrum lasted almost 30. It wasn't as intimidating as I thought!

First Scrum – HELP