An Easier Sprint Overview
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Hello. I’m part of Team Kraken as the project manager and producer of our project. We’re working on a game that used the concept of “Echo Vale of Tinea” as a starting point. In this post I will talk about what changes were implemented to allow for a better overview of our working process. At the start of our project we were given a template in Google Sheets to use as our SCRUM board. The purpose of that was to give us all a common tool with which to start so it would allow us to focus on learning SCRUM. It was however allowed to do any modifications we saw fit to the template. As a result one of the first modification I went on to add was a Status column for the Sprint planning sheet. The following is a snippet showing the sheet before:
As you can see it does not allow for the team to see what status a task is in. During our first sprint, probably midweek, I realized that and came to the conclusion that there is a need for something that would allow both me and the team to easily check the status the sprint is in. As a result, I have added a column named status that would show what tasks are done, are started (WiP), and not yet started. This was color coded for an easier view. The following is a snippet showing the column previously mentioned:
One more thing that was added later on in the project (sprint 2) was a deadlines column. While this was available in the product backlog sheet it was not in the sprint sheet. During our second sprint planning one of the members of the team mentioned he would like to see that in the sprint planning sheet to avoid constantly changing between the product backlog and the sprint planning sheets. As a result a second column was added to the sprint planning sheet that differentiated our SCRUM sheet from the original template. The following is the last addition to the sprint planning sheet:
These changes to the Scrum Sheets were made to allow the team a quick and easy overview of the sprint. While requiring extra work to update them after each stand-up they have proven very effective at giving a quick and easy overview of the sprint’s status. Coming up next, Menu design.  |
