Blog Post #3 The fantastic remedy of Scrum… is it?

On can say that scrum was born as the solution to a problem that occurs in almost every traditional project: Miscommunication. Scrum is often defined as a tool, process and continues on in that flow however, Scrum is more than that. For scrum to work it is not enough that you go through the motions but it requires an understanding of why it is done as Scrum in its essence is a philosophy.
When we started the project we did not […]

Post #3 – Scrum – How it has affected the project so far

Group Siren (the group I am a member of) has been working together since early last semester, though without applying a specific framework to our work-process. As we started working on Behemoth, which we are currently doing, we also started using Scrum as the framework for our project.

 
Scrum for dummies
Scrum is an agile framework, based on the agile manifesto and can be summarised as an itterative development process, best applied when you have a rough idea of where you want […]

Scrum Development

One of the less apparent requirements of our Project is the framework we work in, namely Scrum. Scrum is an Agile Project Framework that is prominently used within the video game industry. For me personally, Scrum has always been slightly mysterious. That may sound a bit strange to say when you consider the fact that I am studying Project Management, but there are some reasons for this. I just finished up a whole semester of studying traditional Project Management, in […]

How scrum has affected our development

For this week’s blog post we have been instructed to write about Scrum and how it has affected our team’s project development. Overall I feel that working with scrum has managed to improve our team’s development. Sitting down and creating a project backlog has helped us with being a bit more organized when it comes to planning what work we are going to do for the week. Also having a document where you can see all of the work you […]

3rd post – Working with scrum

In this week’s blog, I am going to write about scrum. It is an agile framework which is used in project management. It encourages adaption, teamwork, self-organization and customer collaboration. Scrum has timebox, which is called sprint, and it can be from 1 to 4 weeks long. All team members can choose assets to work on and at the end of the sprint they have to deliver a feature. This was the first time for our team to work with […]

Scrum – Has it helped?

The idea behind Scrum is to be more responsive to change. It encompasses an incremental structure to the project, where you work in smaller work cycles and develop a working solution continuously. As such, the main concepts within Scrum that we use are the sprints and the product backlog. The sprint planning and sprint review has worked well most of the time. The sprint review was missed once due to my being out of town, but was solved by filling […]

Blog post 3: Scrum

Hello there.
This week I am going to talk about how scrum has affected the project of creating the game “Depth”. As the project manager of the team, this has been immensely helpful. Reasons for this is that it helps with communication, since everyone knows what everyone is doing, has done and will do for the rest of the week/sprint. This way, I can have an easier time to analyze how I can help with problems that the team have and […]

Scrum – learning iteratively

Once again, welcome back!
For this term in the game design course, the groups work using the Scrum framework. Therefore, this post will talk about my experiences with working with the Scrum framework.
Background
The big secret that we project managers don’t tell our groups is that we have no formal training in the Scrum framework. The previous term consisted of us learning the fundamentals of traditional project management (the opposite of working in an agile way). All in all we had 3 […]

Blog #3 SCRUM

In this blog I will cover my personal approach to Scrum throughout the duration of my project, as well as negative aspects of using it without proper expertise, experience and environment.
To begin with, I’d like to say that I am very happy that Scrum is becoming so popular within the game development industry, and also that it’s a part of the curriculum here, at Uppsala University Campus Gotland. Scrum can be very beneficial if understood and used properly, as it […]

How sprint planning helps Rakshasa

Hey!
In my next post I’m going to bring up 2 topics – firstly I’ll briefly describe the Scrum framework that I’m practising together with my group, but more importantly, I’ll focus on single aspect of it – sprint planning.
As I mentioned in my previous blog about working in a small team, having just a few people has its’ advantages. One of them is definitely the process of setting up the structure from an organisational perspective. Despite of […]

Scrum and the Daily Stand Up

Scrum is one of many approaches to agile development. All agile approaches have in common that the solution is developed iteratively and released in increments. Agile approaches build on the four pillars of agile as outlined in the Agile Manifesto.
The four pillars of agile according to the Agile Manifesto

Scrum offers a framework in which teams that adhere to the agile philosophy can work productively. The development iterations in Scrum are called sprints and can each be one to […]

Using Scrum

In my opinion, Scrum have been very useful from the very start of this project. As the producer (project leader) of the project, the several approaches within Scrum have helped me maintain the right course of the project. By using the Product Backlog, filling in all the numerous features, have made it easy to follow the progress of the project. Since the Product Backlog is updated daily, it is easy to follow the process of all the team members. The […]