agile - Great Days Return

Recently, I was involved in a project that used Scrum. It was a new experience for me and delivered a good knowledge about agile scrum. The agile was very interesting. 

Scrum is an agile software development methodology intended to improve communication and co-operation among team members.

The scrum is excellent because at the end of every sprint, we have something which could conceivably go to quality assurance and you can conceivably ship with. We really had the complete visibility in to how the health and well-being of the development project.Also we had the visibility in to how is the team going, what are they accomplishing, we had the sprint backlog and can see, at the end of each sprint, what the team did, what they failed at, and why?

The most attractive part about scrum was its daily meeting/ stand up feature, in which team members (actually stand up) and answer 3 questions 1) What was done yesterday? 2) What's going to be done today? 3) What barriers are faced , if any ?.

One thing we found really useful on this project is doing our burn- downs by discipline. We can see the velocity of how the project is going. They give a great insight in production level.

Lastly , it is the retrospective meeting. Retrospective meetings are the heart of agile Methodologies. At the end of every sprint the team will be having a retro meeting. It is not a postmortem, it something "look back".  In the retrospective meeting each team member will answer to the questions 1) What went well ?  2) What went wrong ? . It also will have a root cause analysis which finds why they failed at wrong tasks.

I couldn't see myself using any other development methodology that's in current practice today, I am a Scrum fan.

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Posted by Selmath M U