Troubles of agile and invincible growth (14)

Growing troubles (14) This article is from agile and invincible

The time passed quickly, and two weeks later. The first time they ran the sprint was over, but they didn't feel very good.
At the sprint meeting, we selected some user requirements for development based on a product backlog prepared by Alibaba Cloud. Although Alibaba Cloud has already refined the product backlog entry and set a certain priority, the product backlog entry is not selected based on the priority, I just found a few things that can be done in just two weeks. At the meeting, we gave a general discussion. According to previous practices, Alibaba Cloud is familiar with each module based on previous experiences, basically, the task is directly specified by a person. For each task, no detailed estimation and task division were made, because the previous task was handed over to a person, and the person was responsible for estimation, design, and implementation by himself, test the bug and rework it until it is finished. This process is basically a black box. If the person in charge of this task does not speak about it, others do not know what it is and what it is.
At am the next day of the sprint program meeting, Alibaba Cloud convened all the people to hold the first Standing Meeting on the Bright Summit, because this was the first Standing Meeting. Everyone looked at each other and thought it was fun, high interest. A Jie first talked about his tasks. Including how you will design, compare different implementation methods, and give an estimate. I think it should be done within one week and then handed over to the tester for testing. Damin and xiaobao are basically in the same model, and they also talked about their tasks. Xiaobao felt that his piece was a little complicated. It may take 8 working days. It is estimated that there is not much time left for the test. Azu and AZI can only perform tests after they have been completed by developers, so they have not started to do anything. It is naturally easy to talk about, the total time spent by two people is less than half the time spent by a great citizen and a Jie. But even so, it was almost 11: 40 without knowing how long it took for everyone to stop for more than an hour, and the legs were sour. It was just a time to eat, and everyone went downstairs to eat.
In the following days, if there is a meeting room, everyone will go to the meeting room to hold a standing meeting; if not, everyone will gather in the lattice room of Alibaba Cloud. Sometimes the meeting is held at a.m., sometimes at a.m., or because Alibaba Cloud wants to hold a department dashboard meeting in the morning, the daily scrum standing meeting is held at a.m. Sometimes everyone will have a heated discussion on a technical issue. Sometimes, somehow, everyone will talk about Yao Ming, the NBA, and the Beijing Olympics restrictions and buy Olympic tickets, occasionally, I will talk about the company's provident fund policy and department personnel changes. Every meeting is quite long. Sometimes people are tired, sitting in a chair or on a desk, and listening to others. Of course, there is also the noise caused by text messages such as AZI and xiaobao. Sometimes, Alibaba Cloud feels that this is a waste of time. I believe other people share the same feeling. But even so, we stick to the standing meeting, after all, scrum emphasizes daily standup meeting!
The tasks undertaken by Damin and ajun are basically completed on schedule. Zhu and AZI perform tests respectively. Although some minor problems are found, however, Damin and Ajie completed the modification before the sprint was over. But the task that Xiao Bao is responsible for is really troublesome, as he said on the first day. A module is always prone to core dump and cannot be run. xiaobao has changed several methods and even implemented the debug version for single-step tracking, but still cannot find the problem. They even waited for him several times during a standing meeting, so he reluctantly stood up from his seat and attended the Standing Meeting. In the middle of the meeting, run back several times to see the running results. Because he did not ask for help on his own initiative, Alibaba Cloud and Damin did not help him identify the problem. It wasn't until the day before the sprint ended that Xiao Bao was excited to tell everyone that the problem was finally solved. The test time left for Zhu is only one day. Although Zhu has already prepared test cases, this time is not enough for such a complicated feature. Therefore, in this sprint, the module in charge of Xiao Bao did not complete the final test. This made Zhu very frustrated, because it seems that she has not finished her work. At the same time, Zhu is also very wronged. After all, in this fast run, his work is loose and he wants to finish the originally planned tasks, but he has never finished his work, you can only be in a hurry and there is no way.
A Jie is more worried about this situation. Not only is the original plan of the sprint not completed, but more importantly, the first time your team ran fast, it was so bad. After the sprint, Alibaba Cloud organized a simple review to talk about the feeling of the first run. At the meeting, despite thinking about ice breaker and trying to make the atmosphere lively, the first time the process and results were unsatisfactory, the atmosphere was quite depressing. We don't talk much about it. Basically, it takes too much time to report the status every day. In fact, we should use this time to better use the project itself. In addition, because scrum is just a framework, if no specific programming practices are defined, it is not as practical as some XP practices. The key is that everyone basically does not see the value of this scrum process. This time, we feel a little discouraged. Xiaobao and Zhu even said, simply don't engage in scrum. It seems that there are more problems. A jiehao said that it calmed everyone down. The final consensus was to temporarily stop and review it to see if it could be improved. After finding a feasible solution or operating practices, continue with scrum and test the next run.
Alibaba Cloud has been worried over the past few days. In addition, Beijing began to get hot in July, and Alibaba Cloud was a little anxious to get angry. Not only was it difficult to go to bed, but it was a big bubble. From the perspective of feeling, scrum should be a good project management model. Otherwise, agile sages will not recommend it to themselves, or large companies such as Google and Microsoft will give up long ago. Maybe it's just a wrong way of practice, but I don't know how to improve it. It seems that I can only rely on the help of agile sages. Alibaba Cloud connects to the Internet every day and waits until it is very late. He hopes to meet the agile sages.