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Don’t have a Scrum or Sprint Process? Start here.
Effective Agile/Sprint Process for small software development teams
Whatever stage your dev team is at, there is always room to improve and work more efficiently.
After all, Agile is all about evolution and improvement.
Setting a baseline Scrum process in your dev team
If your team doesn’t have a defined process for managing what you’re focussed on delivering and what each person is working on, this is a solid place to start!
The idea is to start with a process that is easy to follow and low effort. Taking the pieces of the Agile methodology that make sense to start with, and ignoring some of the complexity that you’re not ready for.
How to make change happen
People, as a general rule, are adverse to change.
To give a new process the chance to stick it needs two key things
- Agreement from the whole dev team to give it a real go
- Someone responsible for owning the process
If the person running the process is also a developer, then there is no obligation to do absolutely everything.
Their job is more orchestration.
This person’s job is to make sure that everyone gets involved, that meetings are on time and kept on track. In a more…
