Next Generation Tech Booster Scholarship
Daily Scrum Challenge
Completed Sprint #2? Fill up the Sprint #1 Completion Form!
Agile Track | AI Track | Security Track
Daily Scrums?
A fundamental part of any tech-role, these are generally 15 min daily events for a team to plan for the next 24 hours, where each of the team member very briefly answers same set of questions.
Generally Daily Scrums (also known as Daily StandUps) are part of a Sprint a short, time-boxed period where a team works to complete a set amount of work!
Read More....... Daily Scrums
What is the Daily Scrum Challenge?
You might have heard of and even participated in a Daily Scrum routine! This challenge is built on the similar lines. The premise of this challenge is to help you build a time-line driven goal in terms of the Foundations Course, track your progress regularly and commit to the goal as a team so that you can help each other achieve it!
For Phase 1, we plan to hold 2 Sprints of the Daily Scrum Challenge. Each sprint will be 2 weeks. Every scholar who commits for a sprint will be considered part of the team for that Sprint!
Each sprint will have a goal and all the team-members taking part in a sprint have to achieve this goal by the end of the Sprint. So the team-members have to focus on their progress in achieving the goal as well as help their team members in removing their blockers
🚨You won't be assigned any teams as such. It is just that 'everyone' who fills the commitment form for any Sprint will be considered as part of a big team called Sprint #1 / Sprint #2 Team!
Important Dates for Sprint #2!
Starts On: Mon, Jan 8, 2024
Last Date to Sign-up for the Sprint #2 (by filling the commitment form!) : Fri, Jan 12, 2024
🎯GOAL : By the end of the Sprint #2, every Sprinter should have achieved the following Milestone (based on their track) : 🏆
Agile Track : Completing concepts until Lesson 3 - Build & Evolve Agile Teams of the 'Foundations of Agile & Agile Frameworks' module
AI Track : Completing concepts until Lesson 7 - Intro to Object Oriented Programming of the 'Intro to Python for AI Programmers' module
Security Track : Completing concepts until Lesson 2 - Network Security Architecture of the 'Enterprise Perimeter & Network Security' module
🌟 Commitment Wall for the tracks 🌟
Agile Track | AI Track| Security Track
How Does it Work?
1️⃣ Sign up for the ongoing challenge >>> Fill the Sprint #2 Commitment Form for your track before it closes on Fri, Jan 12, 2024
>> Agile Track | AI Track | Security Track
>> Agile Track | AI Track | Security Track
2️⃣ With the aim of completing achieving the Sprint Goal, by the end of coming 2 weeks, EVERYDAY work on your Challenge Course by setting aside a time for it (even 30 minutes everyday would do!)
3️⃣ Do a daily check-in of your progress in the #08_daily_scrum Slack Channel!
How? Everyday at around the same time, make a post in the #08_daily_scrum Channel answering the following three questions:
What did I work on yesterday?
What will I work on today?
What issues are blocking my progress?
Here’s an example of what a daily scrum post will look like :
" Day 1 -
1. Yesterday, I worked on Content Delivery under Cloud Fundamentals
2. Today I’m working on Security under Cloud Fundamentals
3. Not understanding how to create a VPC is blocking my progress"
4️⃣ Operate as a team! 🤝
Applaud those who post any wins! For eg. if someone posts; 'Yesterday, I finally completed lesson 1'. You can do this by leaving an emoji under someone's daily update or by replying to them directly!
Motivate anyone who is struggling! See if you can help anyone in removing their blockers and offer your help to them.
5️⃣ When you've successfully completed the 2-week Sprint, fill out the Sprint #2 Completion Form (of your track) : Agile Track | AI Track | Security Track
The goal of this Challenge is to.....
Prepare you for when you will hold a technical position and when these kind of Daily Scrums will become a part of your daily routine! By enacting a daily scrum, you will get to practice “speaking” on technical topics in an ultra-safe space! This will also help you:
To develop a clear picture of whether you are on track to completing your sprint goal
To identify blockers in your progress
To groom your technical speaking skills
To work as a team with your peers and help each other in removing the blockers and reaching the goal! 🎯
General Guidelines ⚠️
You must do a DAILY check-in about your progress in the Challenge Course in #08_daily_scrum Slack Channel in format given above each day except for the 2 days off of your choice. Start posting from the day you sign-up for the Sprint #2
You may choose to exercise 2 "Off Days" during the entirety of the Sprint at any point that you select. You will not have to post a checkin on those 2 days.
In your daily check-in post, you will only mention about your progress made in the Challenge Course
You can choose to make the daily check-in post at any particular time in your time zone. We will though recommend that whatever time you pick, try to keep posting at around the same time everyday in the #08_daily_scrum channel as this will help in making it a habit!
For eg. if you decide to make a daily check-in post at 5 PM in your time zone, then try to do your daily check-in at the same time everyday for the whole 2 weeks of the sprint.
Completed your Challenge Coursework? If you happen to complete your Challenge Course between the sprint, then in your daily check-ins you can post about something related to this Scholarship such as a project that demonstrates your newfound skills, leading sessions in a study team, or a working on other relevant courses on Udacity
Everyone who signs up for a sprint should think of themselves as a part of a big team!
Encouragement to your team-members can be as simple as a positive emoji! 👍🔥
To participate in Sprint #2, you must start on or before Fri, Jan 12, 2024. After that the commitment form for Sprint #2 will be closed.
For you, the sprint will end after 2 weeks from the day you sign up! For eg. For a scholar who starts signs up for the Sprint on Thu, Jan 11, 2024 for them Sprint #2 will end on Wed, Jan 24th, 2024
Participating scholars will be listed on the Daily Scrum - Commitment Wall of their Track (starting Jan 12) >> Agile Track | AI Track| Security Track
When you successfully finish a Sprint, let us know of it through the Completion Form! Completion form for ongoing Sprint will be released towards the end of the Sprint.
You can set up a daily reminder in Slack to post the daily check-in everyday! All you need to do is type and send this in your DM Conversation with Slackbot (paste the text without the quotes)
"/remind me Post daily check-in for Sprint#2 in #08_daily_scrum channel everyday at XX AM "
(You can replace XX AM with whatever time in you timezone you think you will be able to make a daily post for the Sprint eg. 10 AM , 9:30 PM etc.)