An Agile Developer's workflow when SCRUM is used

If you are planning to start SCRUM at your company, you might need to train developers and QA to get into the mindset of an Agile developer. SCRUM is only successful when the developers and QA get into the habit of following the principles of SCRUM by heart. So, sometimes you need to offer training or do trial sprints to give some room to your developers how to get used to the working fashion of SCRUM. Giving them a handy workflow diagram that shows how they should work helps soothe the steep learning curve required for non-super star developers. I made such a workflow while I was teaching SCRUM at my friend's company. The following diagram was printed and hung over the desk of each and every developer to help them grasp the culture of SCRUM quickly:

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We use Flyspray for issue tracking, so you will see the mention of it frequently.

You will see the step to "Update Sprint backlog with remaining hours" is missing. This is done kinda verbally and scrum master (sometimes same person who is the product owner) keeps track of it.

Hope you find this useful.

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Published Sat, Oct 11 2008 8:21 by omar
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# re: An Agile Developer's workflow when SCRUM is used

Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:26 AM by S. M. Sohan

Omar,

Thanks for introducing the daily workflow. I would like to draw your attention on the following.

I found that on your workflow, you mentioned a role called PM (= Project Manager). And this role seems to be on the center of some of your activities.

Apart from being an iterative and incremental process, scrum really stresses on self managing team. I would suggest you to take a look into this, www.goodagile.com/.../scrumprimer.pdf, a concisely compiled document on scrum basics.

S. M. Sohan

http://smsohan.blogspot.com

# re: An Agile Developer's workflow when SCRUM is used

Thursday, October 16, 2008 11:33 AM by omar

Good catch! Actually here I meant PM = Product Manager, who performs partial the role of Product Owner and complete role of Scrum Master.

# re: An Agile Developer's workflow when SCRUM is used

Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:30 PM by Luke and Dan Kissing in a tree

This workflow sucks.

# re: An Agile Developer's workflow when SCRUM is used

Saturday, October 18, 2008 10:21 PM by kushin

Thanks for posting this. This will definitely help our team.

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