Week 13 - Assignments

1 Scrum Outside IT

You have been hired by a newspaper to introduce Scrum in the editorial and journalistic process. How would that look?

(This blog post might help you: https://www.syndicate.dk/en/blog/my-top-10-changes-to-the-scrum-guide-update-2020 )

2 Scrum and Sprint Planning

We now have three topics specifically stated in the Scrum Guide.

Go through the three topics and find out to which if the pillars they relate and why.

3 Dark Patterns / Deceptive Patterns

Pick a Dark Pattern from here: https://www.deceptive.design/types

  • Describe it
  • How can you detect it?
  • How can you circumvent it? If possible

4 Ethics

We watched a talk with Martin Fowler at the lecture, he says: “Not Just Code Monkeys” and talk about Agile.

  • How does the two things fit together?
  • Is ethics more important in an Agile team? Why? Why not?

In the lecture we found different example of breaches of the ethic codex from IEEE.

  • Is Stuxnet in violation with the Code? With the alleged initial purpose?

5 UI

Create a wireframe for an app where you can place bids on furniture.

6 UX

Pick 3 examples from https://www.reallygoodux.io/ and investigate why is this a good example according to the website, and do you agree?

7 Ways of Working

Play this game: https://dandypeople.com/blog/agile-wow-the-online-game/ .