Do you want to deliver better products and services to a more satisfied client base? Do you think adopting an agile team strategy is the way to achieve those goals? Well buckle up, Dixie cup, and let us explain exactly how your efforts are about to go awry. Jennifer Chance has spent the past year bringing the agile development model known as “Scrum” to The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas. She’ll be the first to tell you that it hasn’t been easy. Mistakes and failures are opportunities to learn, though, and those opportunities are even more appealing if you’re not the one doing the failing. Whether you are considering Scrum, another agile initiative, or none at all, Jen’s no-nonsense approach to a better workflow offers simple, useful solutions for scenarios all of us are likely to encounter. Come and see what you and your team can learn from someone else’s bumpy, blustery journey to become agile--come hell or high water.
8. Benefits of choosing a less productive team
member to be your scrum master:
1. Invigorate a complacent employee
2. No loss of productivity
3. Gain insight on how to fail productively
12. Brandi would meet with us every morning in person
Brandi’s bosses would give Brandi the authority to
represent their interests in these meetings
Brandi is responsible for informing her bosses of what is
said in meetings
Any changes to already approved items would add
length to the approved timeline
13. Benefits of giving your client zero options:
1. Establish best practices early
2. Plan your project how YOU want it to proceed
3. Gives client realistic expectations on a feasible timeline
18. Benefits of giving team members small jobs
they suck at:
1. Gives individual team members a better understanding of
their peers’ responsibilities
2. More hands on deck during crunch times
3. Gives individual team members a better, more versatile
resumé
22. Agile Tip #1
Choose a less productive team member to be your
SCRUM master.
Agile Tip #2
Give your client zero options
(at least at first)
Agile Tip #3
Assign your team members small jobs they aren’t
used to.
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Describe everyone
Agile project management is a style where you complete small portions of a deliverable in short cycles
Scrum is the most popular style of agile – it focuses on being highly flexible and recognizing that your client will often need to make changes to the original idea of what the deliverable is supposed to be, as they learn more about what you’re creating.
The Team is everybody that’s on that first slide. It’s my magnificent seven. These are the guys that are going to be doing the work.
Product owner – this is the person who wants the work done. They are the one who should get across the vision to the team. In this case it’s a marketing director of a program in our school, the MSTC program.
Scrum Master – is the person who facilitates the work getting done. They’re the person when someone on the team is having a problem – they remove that obstacle. They are there to help the product owner as well. Though the scrum master seems like a manager, it’s different. Their main job is to listen to the needs of all involved and make sure they are met, while keeping the team is following scrum practices. We want the team to be working as close to full speed as possible.
Sent to class – small investment – confidence – new skill set
It saves everyone time – don’t have to sit around and talk about how it could work.
With that confidence
Table cloth out from underneath
One of the things we wanted - and our clients wanted, for the first time ever was a site light in content
One of the things the did was more of editing content down – he completed that quickly
I knew he would have more downtown – we had to focus on this one project
Usually I would start him on another writing project right away, but because our developers and our designers were so swamped – I started giving Jon more technical jobs.
Deeper understanding of HTML/ our CMS
At first jon didn’t like it but then
#2Know how this project should go and tell them how it should go.
Tell them this is what we do, this is how we work – and have them agree to it.
[when you go to a scuba class –it’s not – we could do it x or y ] this is how we approached our client and it worked out really well
We tried to get everyone in on it before and it sucked
Thank you guys – don’t forget about that hamburger
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