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Saturday, October 5, 2013

Agile: the application of Scrum in CS department E-Zine project

Scrum is an iterative and incremental agile software development framework for managing software projects and product or application development.(Wikipedia)
I am one of the teams who are working on CS department E-Zine project. To be honest, I don't know anything about famous Agile Software Development until joining in the project. In the post, I will simply show you the application of Scrum in this project.




First step, We  formed a self-organized team.

Second step, in the first meeting, we and client(professor) together discussed the product (it is not final product.), made 5 SPRINTS for the whole project, and figured out the MUST tasks in each SPRINT.

Third step, after one week, we used some software  tools to make a memo to our client. That means out first SPRINT was done.

Now, we are working on our second SPRINT. To finish it successfully, our team split into  5 self-organized groups. Each group was given specific task like interviewing students, faculty perspective, etc.  These small groups use all kinds of ways to devote their attention to the given task, simultaneously at the same time, all members also care and help other groups.

Any way, SCRUM  is one of the leading agile software development processes. We are using it to design, code, test and document our project. From this project, I learned about product and sprint backlogs, sprint planning and sprint review meetings, and how to conduct a sprint retrospective. 




4 comments:

  1. Hi,miao. It is the topic for this week? but I didn't see any post on teacher's blog.

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  2. Hey Li.

    I enjoyed reading your post. Like you, I did not know what Agile was until the project we are doing. So far, I love the process and feel that it is truly beneficial to the entire team. I really like how you include your person examples to explain Agile. I also like the pictures you included (especially the second one).

    One suggestion I would give you is to include references. It would immensely support your post and give you credibility. Overall, great post and I look forward to reading more from you.

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  3. Hey Li,
    You wrote a nice blog on Agile process method Scrum. Just like you, I think most of us are pretty new to this agile process. As Sindhu mentioned in the above comment, it's really nice that you included your project example to show the Scrum process. I like the second picture, but couldnt relate it to the blog or maybe i am thinking differently on this aspect. But overall, a good informative blog!

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