Working with Scrum
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For any kind of development in general where you need to keep track of things, I think working with scrum is a good idea. Scrum helps you set goals and keep track of what you’ve done so far and how it went. Regarding my team, I believe that scrum has really improved our development. Why I think this is because earlier during our first semester where we were given tasks to create board games or design documents. We never actually set any tasks we needed to do before a certain time period. This lead to us not completing things in time for the assignment deadline. We simply did not have a structure that could help us as a team. However, during this semester where we were given the task to create a 2D Shoot ‘Em Up game, we worked with Scrum.
In these pictures, we are using Trello to keep track of what we need to do every sprint and what has already been achieved.
We are also using Excel to keep track of everything. Why we are using both is because we are required to use Excel but in our team, we find it much easier to see every task in detail on Trello. How scrum has helped us is simply by showing us what must be done before the project ends. What is currently work in progress, what needs to be tested and what is done. By having this list we can immediately see if anyone is behind or if things are going as they are supposed to. This also helps us set up goals for each sprint which we try to complete. For me personally, it feels really good when I put something I’ve completed in the done list which leads to it giving me more energy to work on other tasks. The best part about working with scrum is, in my opinion, the meetings. We have two meetings where we meet in person every week, monday and friday. We also have stand-up meetings every day in between which we usually have on Discord (a chat app) since our schedules are very different. This means we can have direct feedback on everything we’ve done, every single day. This means that we can improve the game constantly which I find amazing.  |
