Roles and Responsibilities
Each member of the team is responsible for various activities throughout the life of a project. You may want to take some time to introduce all the team members to each other, and to their relevant responsibilities on the project.
Setting Goals
As a team, you need to know what you're going to build so that you can focus your energy on something valuable. Learning how to communicate these goals to the team is vital. Often a team can be highly qualified at a technical level, but may still not produce the desired outcome if the goals were not clear. Remember, the quality of the output can only be expected to be slightly less than the quality of the input. Since work is done by human beings, it is inevitable that errors will occur. You can reduce the probability of errors by being specific enough. Many teams struggle with this, so it is worth taking some time to learn how to do it well.
You'll be building the Product Backlog with all the goals in the form of Backlog Items. These items will describe "what" you want and "why" you want it.
You'll be building the Product Backlog with all the goals in the form of Backlog Items. These items will describe "what" you want and "why" you want it.
Establish a Rhythm
One of the keys of the scrum/agile process is that you don't have to wait until everything is done to have something of value. In Scrumly, the goal is to deliver value early in a project lifecycle and often. In today's fast-moving economy, it is vital that a team is able to be "agile" and make choices to adapt to change quickly. Ordinarily "change" is a struggle, but by using agile methodologies, and Scrumly, shifting when necessary will be as simple as re-prioritizing and starting a new Sprint cycle. A Sprint is a time-boxed or feature-boxed iteration where something valuable is produced at the end. A typical Sprint may be two weeks or so, but it is entirely up to the team to pick the right timeframe. Not too short where nothing can get done, but not too long where you have no flexibility to adapt. We recommend starting with one or two weeks as you get started, and keep the load low until everyone gets the hang of it.