Some teams do this during the Daily Scrum or when new information becomes available.
TASKBOARD REVIEW UPDATE
At the end of the working day at the latest, the development team members update their activities and estimate the remaining effort. This helps to track project progress on a daily basis and to identify problems at an early stage. These are described in detail, estimated in person-hours and last if possible not longer than one working day. The user stories are broken down into activities in the Sprint Backlog.
It is the information center in the sprint! It is also at the center of the Daily Scrum Meeting, which focuses on progress and impediments. The taskboard shows the current plan to reach the sprint goal. The development team is the owner of the Sprint Backlog and the Taskboard. The taskboard represents the sprint backlog and gives an overview of all user stories that will be implemented in the sprint, the associated tasks and shows the work progress. The following “reports” are often used in Scrum. A picture of the taskboard, burndown or parking lot charts are good tools for this. This creates trust, interest, and commitment. Therefore, the Scrum team should make the information about the sprint or release progress as easily accessible as possible to all stakeholders. Openness and maximum transparency in the Scrum team, and towards stakeholders is one of the five Scrum Values. However, they are very useful when senior management or a sponsor wants to have periodic reports that show the progress of the project. * They are actually not reports, but Scrum artifacts. What is relevant is what functionality has already been delivered and where you stand in product development. In Scrum, it is not important who has worked how much and for how long. However, they do not show how much work has been done. The reports* that the developers create show which user stories have been implemented and whether work is progressing as planned. This is a great advantage over non-agile projects. This allows the team to identify problems early, take action quickly and solve problems while it’s still easy. In case of deviations from the plan, one can quickly initiate actions, reschedule, possibly adapt the procedure and learn from it (inspect, adapt and learn).Īt the sprint level, the Scrum team has very effective tools to monitor project progress with the Daily Scrum, Taskboard and Burndown Charts. In Scrum, work, progress and results are monitored in each Daily Scrum and in each Sprint Review. However, this does not mean that the progress of the project, releases or sprints is not monitored and reported. A comprehensive project control and weekly or monthly status reports, as with traditional projects, do not exist in Scrum. Knowing the progress of the work at any time is not only important for the Scrum team but also for the senior management and the stakeholders. In this article, I will show you how a Scrum project is monitored and controlled. These activities are also carried out in agile projects, but somewhat differently and, in my opinion, much more efficiently. If you are not yet familiar with Agile Project Management and Scrum, you can get an overview here first.Īs you can read in detail in my books on project control, project control comprises the following three main activities: planning, monitoring and controlling. In this article, I show you how agile projects are monitored and controlled. In the first article you already got an overview of how agile projects are planned. Project control for agile projects is somewhat different from “normal” projects, because the Scrum team is self-managing and there is no project manager or project controller. But I can already tell you that project control is also carried out in agile projects. Even the well-known Scrum Guide does not mention this term. You may wonder why project control is not a topic in agile projects.
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