Thursday, September 13, 2007

Lone Tech Writer and Scrumming

I am the only technical writer in an IT department with over 120 employees and contractors. We now have 8 scrum teams with major projects. I am the shared resource but I belong in one scrum team. Do you have any advice on sharing resources in the scrum team environment?

4 comments:

misrology said...

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Katie said...

It is great to here from Egypt. Are you using the scrum development tools?

Andi Dunn said...

One idea is to give the other teams a view of what the documentation will be for their sprint without really developing it. For example, while you are mostly working with one team, perhaps you could provide a content specification or outline of the documentation for another team.

Katie said...

That is a great idea.
I try to do that using the backlog items, requirements, and use cases. The quality of the outline is only limited by the above resources.
Unfortunately, 7 of the 9 teams are just starting and the backlog items have not been created.