In the today’s meeting we decided to implement Scrum to tap the full potential of strenght of our teamwork.

Scrum is a procedure modell with focus on simple and straight working methods especially concerning agile software developement.

Some advantages of Scrum are:

• It controls the process of conflicting needs and interests in the daily workflow
• Scrum is teambased and helpful to improve communication and cooperation but it’s also important for each single team member for the fullfilling of their tasks
• The strenght of this project management method is the simplicity of it’s operating principals

To the central functions of Scrum belongs the Sprint, which is completely organized by the team. It concerns scetchily the major technical and administrative tasks of the projects and also the requirements which are necessary to fullfill the tasks.

Also important – the daily Scrum Meeting (max. 15min.) which we will extend by a phone call with the customer. The topics should be short and precise.

In the review-phase of scrum the costumer controls the result of the sprint, can synchronise with the developers and can make improvement suggestions.

The retrospective phase follows after a completed sprint to improve the next sprint. The teammembers “look back” and note down important events in the last sprint. It is also possible to use something like a timeline to order events.

All in all in scrum is a really simple method for the organisation of complex structurs. It works with small and also really big teams and can be implement at every point of the project.

As of April, 1st we will start our first scrum-meetings and sprints.

[written by Corii, published by Jerk]

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