Tech Musing #2 : Don’t be a Scrum Zombie

Link: http://www.pmhut.com/dont-be-a-scrum-zombie

Summary:

The writer pointed out the common mistakes that are made by many Scrum team on daily basis, and its main focus is on the three questions that is being asked in every daily sprint. Which are: What did you do, what will you do, and is there anything in your way. The way that daily sprint is design was supposed to help team members identify what they have learned from doing certain tasks, and inform others what they are doing do keep the project on-time, and asking for solutions they might encounter during the development. But the writer notices that during daily sprint, most of the people are focusing on reporting what they have done so far, and they rarely talk about the obstacle they run into and seek for help.

Relevance:

The article focus on daily sprint in Scrum, which is one of the topic we have learned in system development process. Daily sprint is the 15 minutes meeting that a Scrum team will have every day, in order to report their current development progress and stating encountered issues. It shows the real life practice of the project management we learned from the class, and it helps us to think about the implementation issue we might face in the future.

Importance:

These phenomenon shows the exact opposite of the intention of Scrum, since it is very different from water-fall development, it will easily be ignored by the people who are used to work in a conventional manner. Water-fall model is focusing on following the designated process of the project, therefore it is important to report what has been done, so the project can move to the next step. In contrast, agile development is focusing on communication in person, so it is critical to understand the purpose of the tools, and implement them in appropriate way.