YDS: How Do You Use Scrum with Only One Developer?

How Do You Use Scrum with Only One Developer? Let's explore the options this situation presents. This and more are discussed in today's episode of Your Daily Scrum with Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley.

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[crbohannon]

Thanks! I'm in the same situation and now I feel more confident we are doing everything ok.

[vkxcqsn]

Lol. That was a good episode. I worked with someone who was on a team where he was on a “Scrum Team” where he was the only Developer. He felt over-managed.

I agree, use it where it makes sense. I used Kanban with 2 Developers, but stopped at some point, because effectively all I ended up with was tracking how long it was taking them to practice upgrading. It felt like micromanaging. Kanban seemed overkill. On the other hand, I used something Kanban-like for a Cyber Engineer who was doing development work. That was actually useful.

Question: I am playing with this one a bit, and would like an additional perspective. How do you deal with leaders who think everything should be Agile? Ex: using “Agile” on a project that is an IV&V assessment, working with 1-2 Developers who are really just using a list of required steps for an upgrade, story pointing a weekend upgrade? They are a little “Agile” crazy about everything which I wouldn’t doubt perpetuates some Developer resistance to Agile. Maybe the question would be what do the leaders want to accomplish that the person managing the project isn’t providing?

[amMesterScrum]

So totally agree. Even with or without scrum a team of one is a terrible way to work any effort. It is an old carryover of the thought process of putting one person on a project. Companies that use this organizational project management are almost always late, an effort that should take a month ends up taking an entire year, what if the developer gets sick like that never happens, vacation forget that and quality just throw that out the windows as no one knows what that developer does as we can't even confirm if anyone else could read/understand the code that is written. It is just a bad practice carried over from poor project management and matrix management practices.

[oahmed]

Hi team. What about a 1 member scrum team? So the Individual is PO SM and developer?

Is there even one advantage?
What are the obvious disadvantages?

Thankyou,

[tomaszniemiec]

🛫 Do you have to? Feels strange :P Sure you can, but I would shorten everything approximately - one day sprints, maybe? But at this state I would simply start lean and agile, add stuff to our workflow as needed and create something new. There is a thing that is growing in our space, called Fast Agile (it's an MVP framework with basic stuff that gets you going into agility).

🛬 Truly agree. Not with the Story Points stuff thou ;-)