Apr 26
We had a retrospective after the first sprint yesterday.
The team was satisfied with the flexibility Scrum gives them. They really enjoyed the freedom with responsibility way of thinking. Rather than sit and wait for decisions to be made, they were able to make them themselves and proceed with their work.
As for areas of improvement, we identified that we have to focus more on the test part in the next sprint. We also had some minor problems with test data during the demo, so this has to be prepared more carefully. To address these issues, we have included fields for “How to Test” and “How to Demo” on our story cards. In that way we will be reminded to think of this every time we look at the cards…
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Apr 20
We are in the middle of the first sprint in my project since Scrum was introduced as development method. This is my first experience acting as ScrumMaster and I will try to share some of my thoughts as we go.
Just as everybody else that are using Scrum, we are using a slightly modified version. But that is, as I see it, one of the great advantages of agile methods.
Main differences from mainstream Scrum are:
- Sprint length is set to three week iterations rather than 30 days
- “Done” is defined as ready for system test rather than production ready
- Sprint planning was done over a couple of days rather than in a one day sprint meeting. The actual sprint planning meeting was kept short (1 hour)
Apart from this, we are doing it mostly by the book.
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