Critique 3: Ellen Wetterholm
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Very interesting post! I like how you start by giving a clear and concise explanation of what Scrum is and how it does work. Even though as Game Design students we all know what it means, some people tend to have different views or simply not understand how Scrum actually works, so by making clear from the beginning what it means to you, I know as a reader how to react to the rest of the blog. The overall feeling that I have for your blog is the following: In the first half of the text, everything seems perfect, but the deeper I get into your post, the more It seems to me that you get a little off from the topic of this 3rd blog which was: ”how has scrum affected your development?” to something like ”How my team tries (sometimes struggle) to follow the Scrum methodology and how we learn to adapt to it”. There is a lot of personal opinions and thoughts but not that much explanation about HOW Scrum actually did help you (or not) while developing the game, examples of what I mean could have been: -”The sprint planning helped me getting motivated to work as I tend to procrastinate” -”Having these scrum review meetings helped me to understand how much I could work in a week and to find my flaws, which made me more efficient”. -”Knowing exactly what had to be done during the week for both me and my teammates helped me to free my mind from the anxiety of not knowing what is being produced, which made more productive”. Don’t get me wrong, this is actually interesting to have this very personal opinion of yours on that matter, and to see how different peoples react to this framework that has sort of been ”forced on us”. I sometimes myself feel the way you describe, which gives me another point of view over how Scrum affected your development but maybe more on a personal level than on a school level Now because of this slight deviation from the topic (that’s how it felt to me), it accentuate at the end of the post this impression of : ”but anyways, let’s get back to the subject: Scrum is useful, THE END”, which is not a problem but sort of made me laugh when I noticed it. All in all, it was a very enjoyable blog post to read and I’m looking forward for the next ones. Great work! -Mikael Ferroukhi  |