At my company, Scrum was adopted as our Agile development framework, and our team began working on the maintenance of six projects with different technologies.
Our Scrum team has these roles:
- 4 Java developers
- 1 Product owner
- 1 QA analyst
OK, but how could we work on all our various projects and still take advantage of the benefits of Scrum?
It was not possible to create a team for each project, nor even to stop working on any of the projects. So we’ve started developing our sprint backlog via these steps:
- Predict how many real shifts we will have during the sprint.
- Estimate the priority items from among the six product backlogs, using Planning Poker.
- Set the percentage of importance that each project will have in the sprint.
- Move those items to the sprint backlog.
In the last three years, we have had success with this approach. Have you faced a similar case? Please be sure to comment and share your experiences.