Week 5. Post 3.

Discuss how you and your team work to stay on track.

Today was our third demo presentation where we presented to the team and the manager of the project the work me and my co-worker have done during the week. Our team uses the Agile Scrum framework which I find fascinating. What we do is we have our Planning Meetings every Monday which last around 2 hours and we create "stories" or tasks that we have to complete by Friday for the demo presentation. Then, every day we have so-called short "stand-up meetings" where we talk about the updates related to work and out-of-work life. On top of that, we have the so-called "Refinement" meetings on Wednesdays where we try to talk deeper about the current tasks and check in on some of the blockers. 

Before coming to this internship, I always knew that effective time management and team management are important; however, I was always suspicious about frameworks/tools for them as I thought they are energetically draining and distract you from doing the actual work.

After seeing the team management in my project, I realized that my assumptions about the team management frameworks were wrong. The way we organize our work in the team is super efficient as we get to stay on track and top of the tasks every day thanks to these meetings that the framework tells us to have. If we did not have these meetings, I would procrastinate on the task every day and be completely lost as I would never get up-to-date feedback on my work. 

Next time, I will try not to be biased toward certain things until I try them on my own and will try to evaluate the tools/frameworks critically before making any judgment about them.