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The tale of the catching team

published September 10, 2010

Have you ever been in a situation where a software project is started with a clear roadmap and beginning works very well? Then after a while, “easy” parts of the software are done and suddenly new features are harder to implement because future plans are not clear enough.

It is almost like the story of the tortoise and the hare. The role of the hare is played by a product owner, the tortoise is played by a Scrum team. If product owner has other responsibilities or vision is not clear, we might end up in a situation where team “catches up”. Suddenly confusion increases because team is not sure what to do next and how to do it. The role of the hare can also be played by other system that team is trying integrate to. If both “client and server” are developed simultanously, client code can be ready before server which will hinder final testing.

An advise “Just make sure everything is ready enough when implementation starts” is very easy to give, but harder to implement in practise. You should, however, be aware of this if you want to avoid “the tale of the catching team” ;)

Samuli @ 21:34 (No Comments)

tags: Scrum, Software

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