Software industry is going crazy on agile methods. It is rapidly becoming the choice for software development where requirements are unpredictable or is expected to change over time. This course will help you gain knowledge on what is agile? Why agile is better suited for these situations? We will also cover some of the most common agile frameworks like scrum and XP in depth. Prerequisite: You need basic knowledge of software development process and software development methodologies. After completing this course, you will be able to : 1) Demonstrate the ability to participate effectively in agile practices/process for software development. 2) Explain the purpose behind common agile practices. 3) Ability to apply agile principles and values to a given situation. 4) Ability to identify and address most common problems encountered in adopting Agile methods. Project: You will also be given opportunity to apply what you learn in this course. You will be given fictional case studies, where after studying the case study, you will have to exercise some of the practices, techniques, etc that team members of an agile team members are expected to know.
Sprint Execution and Daily Standups
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Agile Software Development
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Scrum
In this module we will learn about Scrum which is one of the most popular agile framework. We will learn about scrum practices and the purpose behind these practices.
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Praveen MittalAdjunct Professor
College of Science and Engineering
In this video, we are going to talk about sprint execution and standup.
Basically, once the planning is done,
the action on the ground,
what is happening on the ground and how to make it very effective,
is that's what we're going to talk about.
So if you look at the Scrum overview diagram,
we're going to talk about the execution,
the day-to-day activities that are happening.
And then we're also going to talk about daily Scrum meeting.
So, let's talk about the sprint execution first.
The first question you ask is,
who works on what?
Well, in Scrum, it's recommended that
the team members pick the work from the board rather than the work assigned to them.
So in that case, you want to make sure that your stories or
your cards are in the order of priority.
You want to limit work in progress.
You don't want too many things going on at the same time and they are in progress.
You want to start one thing and finish,
and then start the next step.
Again, it depends on how many team members are there in your team,
but you want to minimize the work in progress.
And to do that,
these two concepts will help.
First one is instead of too many parallel work going on, use swarming,
where you pick one story and then have everybody focused on that one.
One of the problem is that you have a team member who
has skill Y but you need skill X for that work,
and so, the skill Y person has to help with the skill X.
Sometimes, it's possible, sometimes, it's not possible.
The second thing is, if you have too many specialists, then also,
it becomes not possible to have those kind of swarming.
So, you want to create generalists and to do that,
sometimes pairing helps, so two people working together.
The next thing is discipline, discipline, discipline.
So you want to make sure whatever team decided,
they are following those rules and working agreements.
And last, you want to make sure that team is following engineering practices.
Now when you are doing agile,
when are you doing Scrum,
the change is always there.
And to embrace change,
you need to make sure that you're following
engineering practices like, continuous integration,
automated deployment and many other engineering practices that
helps you adapt to change easily.
Now, let's talk about Scrum.
It's also called the daily standup. What is it?
Generally, team members answer
three questions and everybody answer these three questions.
What did I do yesterday?
What I'm going to do today?
And are there any road blocks?
Well, there are alternatives
if you don't want to use that. It's called work items attend.
So in this case,
what you do is you look at the board,
you take the first story,
and whoever is working on that story talks about that story,
about the story like what did they do for that story,
what are they planning to do.
And then you go to the next story and so on.
So you basically go story by story.
It's also called story focused standup.
Who are trained to standup?
Of course, the core team. But any stakeholder can
join the standup to get a feel for it or if they have any question,
that's the time that they can ask it.
And how does the daily standup help and what's the purpose of it?
Well, first is the daily team planning.
It helps the team plan the day. Then they can collaborate.
They can ask for help.
They can identify blockers.
And then, in the end you also get the status check.
Now, make sure that the status check is not the main goal of the standup.
And it's not like everybody is telling the manager what is the status of their work.
Then that is not really the spirit of daily standup.
Other tips is that you want to make sure that
the board is visible to everyone during the standup,
so they can go on the board and talk around the board.
That keeps everybody focused on what we decided to finish.
Parking lot is an idea where if sometimes the discussion goes on and on,
so you want to cut the discussion and just say, "Okay,
let's keep this topic in a parking lot so that we can sort it out after that standup."
Because we want to keep the standup short.
