Walk Til You Drop: Facilitating Team Communication in Agile Development

Agile methodology presents an opportunity to allow rapid changes to an application. Rapid changes function on a sprint system that enables one to partition project planning into goals that last a few weeks instead of planning comprehensive projects that require in-depth planning and sustained attention. Rapid changes are approved by the project manager above the Scrum master, which decides which projects should be completed in specific time frames or sprints. Constant communication enables small teams to accelerate development projects. Daily scrum meetings allow team members to connect with a Scrum master that organizes workflow. Kanban boards track the tasks that have been completed and reflect the projects that are still in progress. Kanban boards allow a Scrum master to quickly see what projects should be eliminated and which team members should be assigned to what tasks. Meeting are encouraged in an agile setting to allow team members to share valuable project information. The daily meeting platform transforms workflow into a daily conversational process instead of an impersonal due date system that makes others feel stressed and unappreciated. Daily meetings are necessary, especially for new developers, because they provide a safe space where developers can ask for help. Some developers resist asking for help. Fears of inadequacy prevent productive teams from working together. Whether a company uses Scrum or Kanban, agile methodology utilizes a ticket system to distribute work between developers. Rapid changes going into production are communicated to all teams in the organization through live change documentation, DevOps Pipelines, and Automated Audit trails (CI automation) through a communication channel such as Atlassian Jira Software.

Changes to production must be approved through sign-offs that require forms for release decreasing deployment lead times. High ceremony CM compliance leads to batching, longer lead times, and higher release risks. Continuous compliance through automation leads to incremental delivery, shorter lead times, and lower release risks. Changes must be logged. Tickets for production releases are assigned to the DevOps team. Those tickets contain the information they may need to complete the deployment and include any relevant updates. Kanban boards will facilitate communication and increase project efficiency. GitHub will provide the ability to package code quickly for production. Jest will allow comprehensive overviews of unit testing. Kubernetes will allow me to manage my team’s container resources from a single control plane. Docker will allow my team members to build, test, and deploy applications quickly, enabling containers to be shared and run the same code in various environments. Some projects might require server automation software like Ansible; however, Docker and Kubernetes are becoming powerful tools. My team will use application performance monitoring utilities such as Sentry to measure the speed and reliability of applications. From planning to delivery, my company has a plan of action for every aspect of project development.

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