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Scrum Process at Evoke

• Evoke Scrum teams have 2-3 week Sprint cycles
• Evoke Scrum teams are integrated teams
• Team comprises of
  • Product Owner
  • Business Analyst
  • Developers and Tech leads
  • Tester (s)
  • Scrum Master
• Developers sign up for work in the Sprint Planning meeting that happens on the first day of the Sprint

Collaboration

• Teams have daily standup call not exceeding 15 minutes. Team members are updated on the progress made. The three questions are answered as
  • What work was done that day
  • What work is planned for next day
  • Impediments for next day’s work
• After the standup call, an hour is blocked for technical discussion if required
• Developers share the work in progress frequently with Product Owner so that they both are on the same page

Testing

• Unit Tests are written as part of development
• Code Reviews are held before code is checked in
• The Testers write test cases which are approved by the Product Owner/ Business Users
• The new functionality is verified using test cases and regression tests are run on the whole application
• At the end of Sprint the functionality is demoed to the Business Users

Product Backlog

• At the end of Sprint, a retrospective is held. Discussion is held on the topics as
  • What went well
  • Areas for improvement
• Periodically new stories are discussed, estimated and added to the Product backlog
• Story Points are used for estimation of stories & defects