Maybe I should learn Agile...

Aiming to achieve goals by a deadline while repeating the cycle of planning, acting, and verifying. Everyone experiences such activities, not just in system development, but also in work and private life.

There are various ways to approach activities called projects. In system development, the traditional representative method is Waterfall development, and the current mainstream can be said to be Agile.

The theme of the latest work in the 'Kent Series' that I have been reading for a long time was Agile!, so I read it right away.

As you read through the story, you can get a feel for the actual site of system development.

For someone like me who has no experience with Agile, there are so many terms I don't know!!

...Sprint, Scrum, Inception Deck, Velocity, etc.

But it's okay. Thanks to the great characters, I was drawn into the story as I read it smoothly.

Break down tasks and visualize the situation. Share each other's progress in a daily scrum, and cover for delays or team members who are feeling unwell. That sounds nice. It seems like you could enjoy working!

Along the way, there was something called '10 Questions'.
For example,
'List of things not to do'
'Find your neighbors'
'What are the problems that keep you up at night?'
etc... This also seems kind of fun!

Estimating and task load analysis, which I haven't had much fun with in Waterfall, seem like things I could tackle enjoyably with Planning Poker.

'It's been a long time since I've been on such an exciting project.'

These are the words of one of the characters. I, the reader, was also excited.

Of course, this is only because it's a story. It's natural that there are various things in real development sites.

Anyway, I enjoyed reading it. There were even some surprising events that happened on a holiday.

SCOW analysis seems like it could be used even in non-Agile projects.

Also, the task board (the To Do chart drawn on the whiteboard on the cover) is something I could try at my own workplace.

Reading it made me want to master Agile even more. Maybe I'll read the reference books listed at the end of the book... Anyway, it was fun and educational!!

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