How has scrum affected our development? – August Demirsson
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In this blog, I am going to discuss how Scrum has affected my groups development for our game. In my opinion scrum has definitely helped to clarify each and everyone’s role and what each person should work on, on a given day. It makes the progress a lot clearer and everyone knows what they are supposed to do. It basically makes the entire game development a lot more structured with scrum than it would be without it. Weekly planning: This might be my favourite part of scrum. Me and my group meet up on a Monday for about 2 hours to plan the entire work-load for the week ahead. With this you can clearly see what everyone is supposed to do on every day and an approximate time it will take for the person to complete the task. If a person has fewer hours than needed in a week he/she can offer to help another person with a lot of work to lower the workload on that person. Daily meetings: Every weekday my group meets up at 12:45 PM to check if everyone was able to finish the work they were supposed to finish according to the weekly planning for the day before. Here you discuss if you were able to finish your task and how it went or if you weren’t able to finish your work and why. This is great as we always know that people are doing work and that we are up to date on the project but can also offer help if someone is stuck. Weekly evaluation: In the end of the week on Fridays we discuss how the week went and if we are still on par with our planning. Most of the time we finished with everything that had to be done. If someone did not finish everything in the backlog the person would either get help from someone else in the group or get help from people that could solve the problem that emerged. All in all, I can imagine that the scrum “system” has made the game development a lot more clear and smoother than it would be without it. Everyone can clearly see what everyone is supposed to do and just follow the backlog in order to complete everything that has to be done in that given week. What more has to be said, it’s a very efficient tool to make a group constantly work and see the groups progress continuously.  |