SCRUM, the final frontier. These are the blog posts of the master nerd Ellis. His continuing mission – to research new technologies for civilization, to boldly blog … well, here.
Next week, we’ll be doing our first real SCRUM meeting. And when I say SCRUM, it’s really more of a modified, WOU-version of a personalized SCRUM that we’re altering mildly to suit the specifics of our highly customized environment.
aka – use what we can, blissfully ignore the rest 🙂
We’ll be starting our 3-minute SCRUM updates to keep each other up-to-date about current projects and future projects. We’re not all working on the same project, but we’ve found numerous cross-over examples where we really do need to know what others are working on. Let me give a few examples:
- Person A develops a new tool to deal with situation X. Person B built that like so last year. Person A should have been trained at some point to save time.
- Bill asks who is ready for new Project P. Michael needs to know who’s working on what so he can answer intelligently.
- Person H is building an application that will eventually require Person L to do some work. Knowing this in advance removes surprises and helps folks coordinate schedules.