Scrum

negotiation [6] and being a Agile framework, Scrum embraces customer collaboration. At Intuit, our team’s customer were Business Analysts as they were the users of the data our ETL pipeline provided. All throughout the project we were in tight collaboration with Business Analysts in every iteration. I am a “customer empathetic” engineer and I think as a project manager I would want my team members to inculcate this quality. I strongly believe that following Scrum approach of customer…

Scrum Approach: Scrum is a simple and a powerful set of principles that help teams deliver products in short cycles, fast feedback, continual improvement, and rapid adaptation to change. Being one of the key framework of agile scrum has predominantly been used for software development. Plan Based Approach: Plan-driven Approach is a more formal specific approach…

Reflection 2 This reflection is based on Gibbs’ (1988) Reflective Framework. Description: This is the first time we’re using scrum methodology for a project which is focusing on delivering working small portions of the end-product. It is an essential learning for me as it requires tight interaction and communication between different stakeholders. There are two interesting scrum artefacts to me: product backlog and the stand-up meeting. Product backlog requires the team to split the whole…

INTRODUCTION Projects are a combination of specific tasks that have a clearly defined beginning and end. It has limited resources and should be completed within an allocated time. Therefore, the restrictions of projects are usually never carried out again in the same manner, with the same resources, for the same reason. Projects are therefore classified as something that is unique and once-off. Furthermore, project managers and teams use project management methodologies which provide project…

team and this team had many motivations which we wanted to make a real project that the goal is eventually open for everyone in the world. We started with scrum meet and found out what kind of project we wanted to produce. After couple ideas came out to our mind, we finally decided to make a scrum board, a real board belong to us for the scrum. That is very interest…

of Scrum. According to Freeman, Scrum cannot be succeeding without a Scrum Master, an individual high qualified and experienced with scrum. Most team members would require at least six months acquiring the knowledge (Freeman). This sometimes can be frustrating for individuals with a background in waterfall method because agile is a highly complicated iterative process. Without an experienced scrum master, training for fellow team members is not going to be efficient. An inexperienced scrum…

effectively implemented through the use of the Scrum model. “For purposes of strategic planning, the Scrum model is used to implement a lightweight process for managing and controlling planning” p. 163. The Scrum model utilizes three concepts: roles, processes, and artifacts. This section discusses the 3 roles of Scrum: master, team, project owner (p. 163-64), the five major activities of Scrum: the kickoff, sprint planning meeting, the sprint, the daily scrum, and sprint review meeting (p.…

environment and currently am an active member of an agile environment at my current employer. For the most part, I know the ins and outs of the agile environment from acting in the role of Product Owner. As the Product Owner I work directly with the Scrum Master and developers to prioritize the work that needs to be done to achieve desired results for the business. Not only do I prioritize the work to be done, I also have to make critical decisions on when to engage the business and when to…

evaluated after completing every sprint task to provide informed judgment on when to refine the product backlog (Jullig 7). Most importantly, the learners appreciated the division of each sprint into Daily Scrums where previous undertakings would be discussed (Domann et al. 929). In these scrums, the team members would also highlight the problems encountered as well as the applicable solutions. This exercise exposed leaners to effective communication skills through team engagement. As a result,…

performed. A sprint planning involves a meeting with the users of the project in order to discuss the requirements that needs to be delivered in the sprint1. Scrum involves people from different cross functional teams to be present in a sprint in order to deliver the desired product. As there are members from different fields, there is a scrum meeting which takes place every day1. The meeting lasts for few minutes and important topics on the project’s status and the tasks that needs to be…