From … to Scrum

From different ways of working (or the same) to working in a Scrum team. What is so different? Is it better? Does it bring value to delivered software? What are the benefits found for the developer in the Scrum team, and what was missing in the previous experience? What are the challenges? What is the most important to be agile? What if the team is distributed? What about people? What was the biggest surprise for author?This talk brings author’s experience in joining a Scrum team after several years of working in any other way (or maybe it was really the same way). Author brings his experience by challenging segments of software development through different ways of working.The author brings his own view of different components of development, from technical and organizational to social. In the technical part he analyzes version control and way of using it, technologies, CI/CD, while in organizational segment analyzes issue tracking, tasks progress tracking, meetings, etc. The author also brings own experience regarding the social component, such as collaboration in the team and out of the team, people in the team, their mindset, collaboration with the customer, management’s impact to the team, level of trust, and Scrum process over all.