We are a group of developers who meet regularly for standups. This gives us positive social pressure to stay focused on our goal of becoming professional developers.
- We meet two times a month, on Google Meets
- We use an Agile framework to run our meetings ( see "How we use Agile and Scrum" below)
- Everyone has their video turned on when we meet.
- Everyone does a standup where you will:
- Share your screen with the group and show us what you have been working on.
- Discuss roadblocks or difficulties you have come across?
- Tell us your goals for the next sprint?
- Each standup takes up to 10 minutes.
- We try to keep meetings to less than an hour in total length.
- Each meeting is run by a Scrum master ( See "How to Scrum Master a mneetiing" below)
- Every member has an equal say in setting procedures and direction for the group.
- Every member participates in
- slack chat.
- standups.
- improving the group.
- Non participating members will get dropped from the group.
Each team member will take a turn being Scrum Master. The Scrum Master's main job is to setup and faciliate the stand ups. Here are some points to keep in mind when you are acting as Scrum Master:
- Keeps each standup to about 10 minutes
- During each standup, each developer addresses 3 questions:
- What I worked on since the last stand up ...
- What challenges or road blocks have I come across ...
- During this section you can open the discussion to feedback from the rest of the team, if it makes sense to do so.
- What are my goals are for the next sprint ...
- Keeps each meeting to about an hour
- Facilitates any other discussion that comes up.
- The Scrum Master keeps (or designates someone to keep) a kanban board on GitHub Projects. Each member has a card which gets an update at each standup. Again, this gives us experience with industry project management tools and best practices, even if it isn't really needed.
We use and Agile framework called Scrum for getting things done. Agile is the most used project management framework in software production. By using Agile we get exposure to industry best practices for team work.