Category: Developers

Coping with change on Scrum projects (Part III)

May 1, 2009 by Jack Milunsky

Introduction

This could be the last in this series unless of course I get new inspiration or I get specific requests to cover additional roles. This week I'll take a look at how the lives of QA testers and Developers are expected to change on Agile (scrum) projects. Frankly, I think that for these two disciplines, life gets much better i.e. developers and testers benefit most transitioning to Agile from Waterfall.

Developers

Developers love to do things right. Nine times out of ten, they'll argue against taking short cuts. They hate the fact that they are forced to deploy code that they know deep down is less than stellar. As with anything in life, making the shift to agile swings the pendulum over to the complete opposite side. So for the one out of ten code hackers out there - beware. The biggest change a developer can expect from a shift to agile is that engineering discipline or rigor is set to the max.