Sprint 5 – Scrum
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All teams have been working within the scrum framework. It has been quite simple to implement thanks to Marcus’s template. During our kick off meeting all of us worked on adding assets to the product backlog in the most organized way possible. We split the different assets into categories such as UI, Player character, Power ups and other pick ups, non interactive assets such as the background and decoration, Menu…etc. We then split them within our different minors : coding, art, design and pm. Personaly, I have found working in one week sprints efficient and it has kept me productive. I finish most of my assets on time for the review meetings and I am sometimes able to add more assets into my sprint when things are going smoothly. One of the difficulties was to meet on daily stand up meetings. We mostly are not meeting up for that and keep each other updated on slack or messenger. It has been difficult for our project manager to organize them because of the different schedules when every member is on campus and it is a lack of motivation to show up for a 5 minutes meeting that was problematic during the other days. The part my team has struggled with the most is keeping the google sheets updated. Indeed, many of the assets have to be reworked and upgraded from the first week to the alpha and to the beta. It is not always clear for which milestone an asset is “implemented” or “ready to be tested”. I think the visualisation on google sheets isnt the best, it would be better with something more graphics with icons and symbol that would look like a huge board. Then it would be possible to grab one asset from one column to the other and everyone would be able to see the different steps the asset has been through. However, another way to make it work is a strategy I have picked up from another team : They to split the product backlog into 3 different product backlogs : alpha, beta, gold.
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