How students work remotely

Here are the roles, events and allocations you need to be aware of.

Roles

Junior Tech Lead

Each group is allocated a JTL. The JTL can be either a student or a junior staff member.

The JTL is a servant leader

A JTL is not the group boss. They are there to help the team pursue success by helping to give the students what they need.

What they need !== what they want

Junior Scrum Master

The junior scrum master is another servant leader position.

They facilitate scrum events when needed and coach the JTL and the group as a whole on Agile and Scrum best practices.

Allocations

You can find the JTL and Scrum master allocations here

Meetings

Sprint planning aka board review

Who: this is run and owned by a junior scrum master. JTL is present as a source of technical information. JTL’s also help keep it real. Eg if a student says they will do something in a week but it should take a day then the JTL should speak up.

Duration: 1 hour max.

Frequency: once per week per group.

Purpose: Plan out the work for the coming week and ensure that plan is reasonable and makes sense.

Daily standup

Who: This is run by the JTL. Scrum master need not be present but should observe from time to time

Duration: 15 minutes

Frequency. Daily at the same time. It needs to be a time that fits the group AND keeps the JTL productive. The time can be negotiated with the group if needed.

Purpose: Make sure everyone is on track towards their sprint goal. Coordinate work within the group and highlight and resolve impediments.


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