Our first attempt at using scrum came during what we call a bug
smash. That is a time when we focus solely on fixing bugs. No work is
being done on new features. This seemed like a logical time to
implement scrum meetings. I chose to meet once a day for 15 minutes.
We met at around 11:30 each morning. I chose the middle of the day so
that everyone could attend and maintain their same schedules. Each
meeting I would have our bug database open. On my white board I tracked
the number of bugs we had fixed in the previous 24 hours as well as the
number of outstanding bugs. When people arrived, we would go around
the room and everyone would talk about what bug(s) they were actively
working on and what they expected to fix that day. If someone had no
bugs left in their queue, we would reassign them bugs from someone
else's queue.
There were at least three good things that came out of these
meetings. First, it gave me a good opportunity to gauge our progress.
Each day I saw how we were progressing. Admittedly, I could have done
this myself by spending a few minutes in the bug database, but this was a
forcing factor. I also was able to hear how people were doing. When
they were stuck on a bug, I knew about it quickly. Second, it allowed
the team to see where we stood. They knew where we stood as a group
with the numbers on my white board. They also knew how their teammates
were doing. Hard work is contagious. The third, and mostly unexpected,
benefit was the cross-pollination that took place. One team member
would say they were working on a bug and someone else would speak up
with suggestions for solutions or places they might look for code doing
something similar. We ended up being much more efficient as a team
because of these short meetings.
For this bug-fixing stage of the product, small, short meetings on
a daily basis proved very useful. It is not fully implementing scrum
and not even really fully implementing the scrum meeting portion of
scrum, but it was useful.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steverowe/archive/2006/01/05/experimenting-with-scrum-part-3.aspx
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