Comment Week #3

Comment on 5SD064-Short Scrum Reflection , a blog entry published by Yinsong Hong:

Hi Yinsong!
I enjoyed reading your blog entry about your personal scrum reflection. I value that you showcase positive and negative aspects of working within a scrum environment that you have encountered while working on your project with Team Flytrap. Your structure is precise and coherent, creating a pleasant experience for the reader. It is good to hear that working with scrum has had a beneficial influence on the outcome of your project. However, I would have loved if you would have shortly described what working with scrum concretely means for you and your group. You state that you were able to do 85% from what the instruction required you to do, which I can not really put into context, so maybe some further elaboration would have been fitting. In my opinion, it would also be valuable to shortly introduce the reader to what extend you applied the scrum framework and what and why parts of it did not work out as you would have wished. Furthermore, and since I am also working on the same project (and even the same concept), I would have loved to get some more insight on how your group executes the weekly sprints (I assume you are using a google sheet as well? What is your opinion on such short sprints?) and what your thoughts are about having daily stand-up meetings in person – has it positively influenced your workflow or was it more of a burden? These are just some small ideas on how to further improve an already precise and well-written blog entry. Best of luck for the rest of the project and keep up the good work!
//Alex Sinn

Comment on Sprint 5 – Scrum, a blog entry published by Marie Colin:

Hi Marie!

Thank you for the unique insight on how you and your group applied the scrum framework for this project. It is great to hear that you conclude to be more efficient and productive while working within this framework. You even state to sometimes add more assets than planned, awesome! The way you split your assets for the product backlog seems reasonable and thought-through, but I also agree that keeping the google sheets up to date might sometimes be an annoyance. The idea you propose in working more with icons and symbols sounds interesting and adds value. Your blog entry is well structured and coherent content strengthens that. Bonus points for adding a screenshot of your first sprint plan, which makes it easier for the reader to comprehend and retrace not only your thoughts but also the issues you have had.

However, I would have loved to hear more of your thoughts on how working within the scrum framework has affected you. Have you valued the daily stand-up meetings or were they not beneficial? Would you have preferred them to be in person instead of on slack or messenger? Since I am the only artist in my team, I would be keen to know how you managed to split the work between the artists. Have you ever felt being held back by the framework because other assets where not done in time or was this not an issue during your project so far?

I would also like to point out that both the introduction and the ending could have maybe been a bit smoother. Your blog entry ends rather abrupt, creating a dissonance to the otherwise fluid and pleasant reading experience. You also mention Marcus’ template in the introduction, which somewhat seems to be out of context, since other people might have no clue what you are talking about. I would also run the text through a quick spell-check, since there are some unnecessary typos and language mistakes that could have easily been avoided.

Nonetheless, a great post about a rather dry topic. Best of luck for the rest of the project and keep up the good work.

//Alex Sinn

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