A New Start and Communicating Complexities
Behold ye! For I shall announce a new chapter in my life!
And I shall do it in the corniest way possible!
Today I became a student again. Not necessary a student that will go to an actual university campus, but rather a student that will attend lectures while working a full time job. In a totally different country.
Welcome to the COVID-19 era and matured education collaboration software.
This year I applied for a Master’s programme at Stockholm University involving the likes of IT Project Management. Despite the worldwide premiere of COVID-19, I got an e-mail stating that I was admitted to the programme. I was quite happy as I wanted to do this for quite some time already but I could never find a Master’s programme that would quite suit my ambitions.
Today I would like to reflect in short on one of the challenges software developers regularly encounter in their professional lives. Being one myself, I truly understand when developers say that, communicating relevant complexities to their management team is sometimes a struggle.
A struggle because they want to communicate the proper amount of urgency while avoid communicating too many details. And. Not run the risk of diluting ones own message.
I believe that, setting up proper project tracking and management software (like Jira and Confluence for example) in combination with Agile methodologies such as SCRUM really improves communication of technicalities and feature requests within an IT project. This is due to the nature of SCRUM which strongly encourages teams to break down requirements into bite-sized items and then refine them before they are actually implemented. Even though this approach existed for quite some time already, some companies still have not adapted a similar approach with developing software products and, perhaps I’m biased,I truly believe that the SCRUM way is definitely a decent way to better software.