Blog 3: Scrum in our development

Today’s blog will be about Scrum and how scrum have affected the development of our game. Scrum has had a positive impact on the game as the development has been smooth and we have been able to change things we did not like and adapt to other things we felt were lacking or did not match our expectations. It has also been smooth using the sprints as we got a goal to work towards, and the daily stand-up meetings have been good as all of the group members got an insight what the other group members have been doing, and what their problems have been. Another thing that has helped tremendously is the sprint planning, and we have been using a site called HacknPlan to help us with the sprint planning and the sprint backlog. HacknPlan has enabled us to streamline the process of sprint planning and sprint reviewing as we can quickly see what is in need for more time, what has been finished or what we can test in a playtest. Scrum has also helped us to get a better group dynamic by using the sprint retrospect where we write down everything we think we should start doing, what we should stop doing and what we should continue doing. The sprint retrospect has made it possible to adapt to everyone’s need and make the entire project more fun and enjoyable for everybody in the group. Another essential thing scrum have helped with is to make everyone in the group have the same goal and in turn, made a goal which is reachable where everyone has a voice and opinion.
All in all: scrum has helped our group exceptionally much, with planning as it is much easier to see what needs to be done, with structuring with the help of HacknPlan and the backlog and the sectioning of weeks into sprints have made everything easier to put into perspective. The capability to change things while developing them has made everything more fluent, and it has also made the project easier to create because if the artist or programmers see a problem with they did not see from the start, so it is changed to fit the new view. Lastly, scrum has helped us with the group dynamic, making everyone have a voice has made the entire time enjoyable.