Scrum Methodology

Team Cycl-ops will follow the Scrum process methodology. There will be a total of 7 sprints of 3 weeks each. At the end of each sprint, there will be a product demo for the sponsor. The sponsor will have the ability to reject or accept completeted features after each sprint. The first 2 sprints will consist of gathering system requirements and creating user stories based on dicussions with the sponsor. The team will use planning poker to estimate story points for user stories. Starting with the third sprint, the team will begin development of the system with an intial velocity of 10 story points. In order to accomodate the daily standup meetings that SCRUM requires, the team will have 2 in person standup meetings and 5 virtual standup meetings through e-mail each week. The product owner will be present at 1 in person standup meeting each week.

Pivotal Tracker

Pivotal Tracker was used to track user stories, plan sprints, and track sprint progress.