playing scrum

At last, out team grow up and started using Scrum. It was a spontaneity idea, we had been left to our self for two weeks and during that time we had to delivery specific functionality. As usual, the specification wasn’t prefect and we haven’t had anybody to ask.

So we decided to use Scrum, even if fail it can be a funny experience

The first step was to organize our Task Board, with ToDo, In Progress and Done columns. Below we put our Backlog. We haven’t had a real Planning Meeting and it was a mistake (but that brought to our minds after the First Iteration). We just wrote down all the tasks that were assigned to us, put on ToDo column yellow posits and started the First Iteration.

Every day we had StandUp Meetings where each developer said what he did, what he is going to do and what blocks him. And we use a Talking Stick

That went smoothly more or less with additional discussion. Each day I was updating the Burndown Chart and we discovered that we can do tasks faster than we planned. And we have been basing on 4 hour work day – you know, average developer spend 50% of his time on coding

The First Iteration took around 7 days, after that we had a Demo. It was a simple task, our business analyst took all the posits and walk round each developer and asked to present given functionality. It was the best think, we discovered many small bugs or mistakes. That was the end of the Iteration One!

We also did the Retrospection and basically we agreed that we must improve our StandUp Meetings and be more accurate when describing the tasks.

Right now we started the Second Iteration and we’ll see…