Agile Flow - Rap Song
Uninteresting song about agile methodology.
We were using waterfall
As that was the industry protocol
At a point, we started loosing, and it appeared confusing
It felt like we've hit a wall at the checkpoint
It was clear we were bruising
Project managers didn't get it, cause our projects stalled
Requirements were brewed unchecked, and they grew so tall
That our dear engineers fear
No matter how they brawled
These projects ain't gonna ship at all
Projects laid scattered
But project managers lathered with flatter
Engineers started to chatter
It was clear this was a new chapter
Where we were no longer faster, and falling in the waterfall
Senior management knew they had to shatter the later
Once and for all
We made the call to implement products in increments
And hoped that the by-product solves our predicament
Thats when Rauf came into the picture to help us morph
From fragile waterfall to agile metaphors
With some instruments he tried to bring us back to shore
And taught us some lessons which has been a blessing
Gonna share them now in this small session
First, you must empower your team to take action
Cross functional teams with an innate passion
To ensure customer satisfaction
Staying in interaction is your superpower
And only course of action
This helps you to sit with your team to split features into bits
Commit to do it repeatedly
Use a toolkit as your team permits
Store them on a hardboard or on an e-board
Whichever you can afford
Hardboards are easy to onboard
E-boards are hard to be ignored
The board is your team's backlog
With a watchdog called the Scrum master
He creates racks which are called sprints
Where you stack tickets with the biggest impact footprint
And attack them in two or three weeks stint
Keep track of each sprint like its calories
Each ticket should be compact in the gallery
Lastly, you have to observe the scrum rituals
Standup meetings is the most habitual
Where teams participate and share their feelings
This is done daily to facilitate collaboration
Eliminate distraction and demonstrate progression
These you will use at your retrospective meeting
To understand from a different perspective
What was defective and effective as a collective
And apply some correctives as part of the next sprint objective
Agile is iterative like that
Giving you full utility of your team's ability
Providing visibility for each responsibility
That ensures the project's viability
Our projects are in a stronger lane
Project managers are no longer insane
Stakeholders no longer ponder
As they are again entertained
Our team is fire man, you cannot flame us
We love agile man, you cannot blame us
We going higher now, you cannot tame us
We beating our chest
About to go apesh*t on the request list
You can put us on the ape list
We coming for the conquest
Smashing any coming contest
I hope you learned from our lesson, no need for stressing
Pickup agile and start progressing towards progression
(PS: Rauf was the agile coach at a previous company)