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MiniScrum, our approach to Kanban, Agile and Scrum
The subset of agile that we will use in this class.
MiniScrum - Our approach
Agile methodologies are designed for ongoing projects with dedicated teams
Our situation:
13 week course
Learning experience
Only one of many commitments
Hybrid / subset of Scrum and Kanban
Our approach
1 week sprints
Weekly written project status submission (see
Weekly Progress Updates
)
Trello for Stories
Weekly Meeting
Schedule a mandatory weekly meeting with all teammates
Same time, same place
Establish how you will communicate (messanger, slack, whatever)
Prepare and submit your
Weekly Progress Updates
Story
A brief (1-3 sentence) summary of something that has to be done
Level of detail corresponds to what would be needed to complete the story.
All stories start off in the backlog
Every “idea” or piece of work should be a story on trello
Stories are re-prioritized on a continuing basis
Trello
Tool for tracking stories
Get one account for each team
Share it with Professor and TAs
Start with these “lanes”
Backlog
This Week
Next Week
Sprints
Use a weekly sprint corresponding to your weekly meeting
At the start of the spring, reprioritize
Some number of stories from the top of the backlog are planned for the coming week.
Associate specific students which stories to be done this week
Whenever new ideas come up, during brainstorming or anything else, add them to the backlog.
Kanban Leader
I suggest (but don’t require) that you choose one student to be the Kanban leader
In charge of the discussion at the start of the iteration
Follows up to see that things are going as planned
Welcome
2018 Syllabus
Calendar of Lectures and homeworks
Resources
Lectures
Pilot Project
Welcome!
Lean Startup
Hypotheses
Working on Teams
MVP
Guest Lecture: Michael Skok
Pilot Project Conclusion
Term Project: Startup
Welcome to Term Projects!
Build Measure Learn
Project Planning
The Pivot
The Engine of Growth
Mockups & Prototypes
Testing Techniques
Term Project: Product
Product Market Fit
Jeffrey Beir: Metrics
Business Models
Pricing Models
Andy Payne: Startup Finance
Intellectual Property
Term Project: Business
Finance for Geeks
Founding a company
Real World Survival Kit
Management and Leadership
Dulcie Madden: Startup Teams
Last day converstation
Term Project
Term Project Outline
Minimum Viable Product Info
Hypotheses
Final Presentations
Background
Learning Goals
Grading
Teachers
Lexicon
Interesting links
Credits and acknowledgements