
Naveen Kumar Singh
Naveen is a professional agile coach and has been working independently for a long time in the Asia... Read more
Naveen is a professional agile coach and has been working independently for a long time in the Asia... Read more
We often see teams create tasks for product backlog items during sprint planning, but those tasks are skill-based tasks like coding, testing, documentation, etc. Is it the right way to do it?
What can all go wrong if we keep creating tasks like this? I was in a meeting with a team, and one of the team members asked a question related to daily scrum.
The question was – why have daily scrum? We all know daily scrum is a critical inspect and adapt event but what if the team doesn't find it useful? Why was it not helpful for them?
We were starting to go through the whole process and found that sprint planning is the real culprit. The team shared their sprint backlog, which was something like below:-
Product Backlog Items for the current sprint –
Automate opening investment page for agents based on customer type with customer basic details. | ||
Analysis | 4 | Farhan |
UI Design | 6 | Farhan |
Coding | 8 | Farhan |
Unit Testing | 2 | Farhan |
Code Review | 2 | Kaushik |
Documentation | 2 | Kavya |
Document Review | 2 | John |
Writing Test Cases | 4 | Karan |
Test Case Review | 2 | Diya |
Testing | 6 | Karan |
Integration Testing | 2 | Farhan |
Automate opening loan page for agents based on customer type with customer basic details. | ||
Analysis | 4 | Nishchint |
UI Design | 6 | Nishchint |
Coding | 8 | Nishchint |
Unit Testing | 2 | Nishchint |
Code Review | 2 | Kaushik |
Documentation | 2 | Kavya |
Document Review | 2 | John |
Writing Test Cases | 4 | Neha |
Test Case Review | 2 | Diya |
Testing | 6 | Neha |
Integration Testing | 2 | Nishchint |
Generate a single view of all investments for a particular customer based on customer ID. | ||
Analysis | 4 | Farhan |
UI Design | 6 | Farhan |
Coding | 8 | Farhan |
Unit Testing | 2 | Farhan |
Code Review | 2 | Kaushik |
Documentation | 2 | Kavya |
Document Review | 2 | John |
Writing Test Cases | 4 | Karan |
Test Case Review | 2 | Diya |
Testing | 6 | Karan |
Integration Testing | 2 | Farhan |
Generate a single view of all loans for a particular customer based on the customer. | ||
Analysis | 4 | Nishchint |
UI Design | 6 | Nishchint |
Coding | 8 | Nishchint |
Unit Testing | 2 | Nishchint |
Code Review | 2 | Kaushik |
Documentation | 2 | Kavya |
Document Review | 2 | John |
Writing Test Cases | 4 | Neha |
Test Case Review | 2 | Diya |
Testing | 6 | Neha |
Integration Testing | 2 | Nishchint |
Most importantly, commit to the Sprint Goal, not to the plan. Inspect and adapt the sprint plan daily as work progresses.
Naveen is a professional agile coach and has been working independently for a long time in the Asia Pacific. He works with the software development team and product team to develop awesome products based on empirical processes.
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