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Tag: Scrum

  • Team switch results and sick leave

    On Friday I got feedback from the team where I’ve been assisting for some time. It seems, that I did quite well, the feedback was 100 percent positive and also accompanied by the statement that they would welcome it if I decided to permanently switch to them.

    I have to admit that I already played with that thought a bit, but for now I think I’m not switching (yet). After checking back with my superiors there would be no problem at all, so it’s really completely my own decision. After these results I think it will get more comon to exchange team members for a limited time cross-department. And I think that such exchanges will largely be positive as all concerned parties can learn from the experience.

    In other news, I’m in bed. Yesterday in the very last minutes of playing Badminton I somehow tripped and hurt my ankle. It was quite painful but after about 10 minutes it went away and I could walk normally. Over the course of the afternoon and evening the ankle began to hurt just a bit and became swollen. This morning my ankle had the shape of a tennis ball and hurt much more than yesterday so I decided to give the hospital a visit. The physicals resulted in pulled ligaments and now I’m on sick leave for at least this week. And I guess, the revisit on Friday will result in that I should stay away from such fast-running sports for some time. Damn…

  • Team switch

    This week, the first week back at work after vacation, had quite an interesting start. Monday was without surprises, just Sprint demos and a bit of administrative work. But on Tuesday the interesting stuff began when I received an invitation for Sprint planning meetings of another team.

    As it turned out, there had been some initial conversation about me helping in another team for a specific task but the discussion had no clear conclusion. In the end and after some negotiation between the teams we agreed that for the upcoming month I’m assigned to the other team. There I’ll assist with their current tasks so that the task I’ve been originally requested for can be finished faster after the ones with higher priority are completed.

    So I’m now completely shifted to a different team (the same I’ve already joined some time ago) for four weeks and after the first few days my impression is that as well the other team can benefit from my knowledge with the Scrum methodology as well as I can benefit from the different tools and experience how they solve their problems. A clear win-win situation.

    Of course everything has been discussed with my other team and it posed no problem to them in the upcoming time.

    Just one drawback is that the next vacation block in two weeks had to be canceled because of these changes. But since I’ve got plenty of vacation left for this year, this is fine with me.

  • SCRUM Deja Vu

    For a few days now I’ve been joining another development team in our company to work on something which is more related to this team than to my current SCRUM team.

    This experience is like a Deja’Vu.
    The new team is just existing for 2 sprints (~4 weeks) and being in it reminds me of the beginning time of our own SCRUM team a year ago.

    It’s like a look in our own past where we hadn’t applied SCRUM as we do today and our team was not working as closely together.

    But they have the same learning progress which we had, even faster than ourselves. And that’s something they have to do on their own, this cannot be done by explaining or trainings.

    I think this team has the potential to become very successful.