It was a thrilling start of agile adoption by the software training division. The team decided to streamline different activities taking place in a very transparent and the most efficient way by adopting a simple but very effective methodology.
Even though SCRUM is traditionally used for managing software projects, it has been proven to be very successful with many other industries.
Aitrich Technologies, as part of establishing their leadership in software training on most modern and futuristic technologies, is in the process of introducing many technology courses. Different teams are busy with many related activities such as course material preparation, technology research, training for the trainers, teaching, the final projects of each course etc. All these activities needed to be optimized and directed towards the highest quality. It is very important to always focus on the goals, effectively measure the progress and continuously improve the process.
These were the forces behind the look out for an effective methodology that should be simple, but easy to adopt. The methodology should facilitate communication, team work and the participation of all team members.
So the team decided to implement their own version of SCRUM for their many small projects and tasks.
Here is the first SCRUM board of the team, for their new mini project, Database Concepts, the material preparation of the topic.
You can see the user stories brought up as backlog items on the board. Each item is a measurable unit of work.
There was an overwhelming response from the team members for SCRUM. The team has already created the sprint backlog items and started picking up in the morning stand up meeting, and working on the tasks.
The above SCRUM board was created just to get the process started. The team plans to hold proper Planning Sessions, to prepare the backlogs in the coming days. There will be small sprints(small iterations in the scrum terminology) for their projects. Their projects, or a release can be anything like the complete material preparation for a particular topic, say, Android or BlackBerry Development(which are already in queue). There will be sprint retrospectives and the product demo (may be a pre-release demo of the course for the Course QA Team or the management).
Anyway, Aitrich Technologies can claim the first ever organization to adopt SCRUM and Agile at Thrissur. Kudos the team, for your agile adventures. Let us wish them a grant success for this humble start.
Even though SCRUM is traditionally used for managing software projects, it has been proven to be very successful with many other industries.
Aitrich Technologies, as part of establishing their leadership in software training on most modern and futuristic technologies, is in the process of introducing many technology courses. Different teams are busy with many related activities such as course material preparation, technology research, training for the trainers, teaching, the final projects of each course etc. All these activities needed to be optimized and directed towards the highest quality. It is very important to always focus on the goals, effectively measure the progress and continuously improve the process.
These were the forces behind the look out for an effective methodology that should be simple, but easy to adopt. The methodology should facilitate communication, team work and the participation of all team members.
So the team decided to implement their own version of SCRUM for their many small projects and tasks.
Here is the first SCRUM board of the team, for their new mini project, Database Concepts, the material preparation of the topic.
You can see the user stories brought up as backlog items on the board. Each item is a measurable unit of work.
There was an overwhelming response from the team members for SCRUM. The team has already created the sprint backlog items and started picking up in the morning stand up meeting, and working on the tasks.
The above SCRUM board was created just to get the process started. The team plans to hold proper Planning Sessions, to prepare the backlogs in the coming days. There will be small sprints(small iterations in the scrum terminology) for their projects. Their projects, or a release can be anything like the complete material preparation for a particular topic, say, Android or BlackBerry Development(which are already in queue). There will be sprint retrospectives and the product demo (may be a pre-release demo of the course for the Course QA Team or the management).
Anyway, Aitrich Technologies can claim the first ever organization to adopt SCRUM and Agile at Thrissur. Kudos the team, for your agile adventures. Let us wish them a grant success for this humble start.
good to see the well planned manner of handling tasks..i'm sure it will help us to coordinate and handle the projects easily.. happy to be a part of aitrich team :)