First Post
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Welcome to my blog. Working on a project for me has been a big eye opener compared to other work I have done before and it has forced me to learn. Before I came to this school I didn’t really think that there were models for how projects should be executed or models for how to organize them. In fact I thought that most projects relied mostly on that people “winged it” and then solved problems as they arose. When we started working on this game we were told to use a method called Scrum which we had learned a bit about in project management class. At first I felt that it was a strange tool to use as the way you documented and had sprints, but as I became more secure in my role and my understanding of the progress I started to see the advantages of the system.
Last semester when I was still learning Scrum I felt that progress was much slower and that it was hard to organize the different members of the group. And as such the performance seemed to drop with time due to a generally lackluster leadership at that point from my side. However now when we use Scrum it is much easier to see when problems arise and to deal with them. The main reason for this is the daily meetings and also the sprint planning and sprint reviews allowed me to catch problems as people reported them more consistently. Why this happens is that the agile method of Scrum allows for a lot of variation on how to work within and how to divide tasks allowing the group members pick tasks that they feel confident they can finish in time. Secondly it also allows project managers to focus more on working on solving problems rather than spending most of the time working on the documentation. However a downside would be that I feel that if a group is to big then Scrum won’t allow the project manager to have a good overview and also the communication between group members will be cluttered and no one will know what they are doing and why. As such I can understand why we learn working with this methodology in this course as it will allow us to get used to it in a working environment and also is one of the more efficient ways to manage for now.  |
