Prioritizing
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We have been prioritizing all the main tasks during the sprint planning meetings. They are prioritized after how much they add value to our game. During the sprint planning meetings, we talk about what we want to accomplish during the sprint. The decisions are noted as main tasks and then we start to prioritize all the main tasks. When they are prioritized, we divide us into two groups: programmers and artists/designers. Both groups go through the main tasks and talk about which tasks are needed to be done on their department for the main task to be accomplished. The results are written down into small tasks that are divided among the team members. Those tasks are then prioritized by each individual team member to match the prioritization of the main tasks. If all team members are following this method, all the main tasks with the highest value will be accomplished first and the least valuable tasks will be accomplish last. This makes everyone on the team focus on what is important and if the team run out of time, only the least important tasks have not been accomplished. This works on our project! Everyone is focusing on what is important and if we fail to complete all main tasks at the end of a sprint, it does not feel as bad as it have felt in other projects where we have not done this prioritizing.  |
