Working in scrum – daily sprint meetings
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I’m Guy Dimor, lead code for team Wendigo, and today I’ll be writing about scrum, daily sprint meetings, getting used to said meetings and incorporating them into my daily schedule. Going into this project, I had no idea what scrum is or how it works, nor did I have any particular interest in anything relating to project management. However, once I had scrum explained to me, most of it seemed rather intuitive. While it wasn’t too challenging, I still needed to put in effort in order to get used to having the daily sprint meetings as part of my (well… daily) routine. At first it just felt like a hassle, having to be in school every day at the exact same time, having to present what I’ve done since the last meeting, being accountable, having thoughts along the line of “Who are you to question my methods?”, “I don’t owe you anything!”, “You’re not my supervisor!”, “Get the hell out out of my room, mom!”, and “Only Linkin Park trully understands me”. Due to my background, I was already accustomed to living from weekend to weekend, which turned out to synergize well with how scrum works. As far as I was concerned, I could crunch all day, every day as long as I got the weekends off, an attitude which I’m sure I’ll come to regret eventually, but not quite yet. As a group, we had the idea to work together every wednesday, which
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helps us improve our group dynamic. While we work, we also crack jokes, bring snacks and have fun. We even have our own custom emoji and Pepe on Slack. All of these combined with a workflow that’s busy but not overbearing resulted in a very good work environment.