Blog post 3: Scrum
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Hello there. This week I am going to talk about how scrum has affected the project of creating the game “Depth”. As the project manager of the team, this has been immensely helpful. Reasons for this is that it helps with communication, since everyone knows what everyone is doing, has done and will do for the rest of the week/sprint. This way, I can have an easier time to analyze how I can help with problems that the team have and can get. I say “can get”, since by analyzing the items they are working on, I can also prevent problems, before they occur. It is also very good to use, since it tells us to have daily stand up meetings. This makes the group talk to each other and explain their problems. The procedure in my team is to have the daily stand up meeting and after that have an additional meeting right after, where we try to solve and discuss the problems in further detail. Though, most of the time we do not have to have many discussions at those times, since we have a clear constant communication. Other benefits with scrum, that have helped my team is the backlog. The backlog has given the team a clear view on what has been done and what has to be done. It boosts morale, since it clearly shows the progress made. It also helps the team prioritize what has to be in the game and what should be scrapped in case there would not be enough time. Though this is not something my team have had to think about, it is nice to know what is to be prioritized in case of unforseen events. The problems that using scrum has caused, is that some members of my team are disliking using it. This, because they feel like it is stopping them from doing what they want to do, at the moment. Instead they follow what was agreed upon with the rest of the team at the beginning. Though, they do understand the benefits of using scrum and do agree that it is very useful. To summarize, overall scrum has been very useful and help the team with communication, as well as problem solving and prevention.  |