Agility in CorrelAid projects

[pr130]

• define what agile works for CorrelAid projects
• come up with recommendations for roles
• collect useful tools and resources for "low-cost" agile
• provide templates

[sabrina-ar]

Hi there, here are some of my thoughts to agility in CorrelAid projects.

if you have participated in a project and you made use of agile methods: what worked, what did not work? tips you want to share?

• regulary, in advanced fixed meetings; fix date and time for regulary schedule and/or schedule next meeting at end of each meeting
• defined pile of outlined tasks for sprint which lasts until next meeting
• not only set sprint deadline but also final deadline
• define roles with specified tasks, responsibilities
• if possible, regularly (once or twice a month) invite NPO to meetings for feedback and insights
• GitLabs kanban dashboard is very helpful for agile working

if you know agile from your work : any resources / templates / tips you want to share?

• a review stage through a merge request (todo -> in process -> review -> done) helps a lot to ensure functionality on different operating systems, completeness, coding guidelines, and the understanding what colleagues were working on; however I'm afraid this would slow down the processes in the voluntary context
• a regulary, short retro perspective also helps a lot to improve working processes, prevent misunderstandings or conflicts, ...