I am the lead of 3 teams that consist of 21 people. One of those teams is a Linux administration team. I knew there was a lot of work and was having trouble keeping track of daily tasks and deliverable projects. So I and one of the team members sat down and figured out Jira and started putting together a proof of concept project. Once we got the layout correct, I asked all Lin Ads to bring their laptops, come into the conference room and just dump everything they’re working on into the project. From there we created epics and issues for each epic. in 90 minutes we came up with 115 issues between our epics. We have our first sprint planned to start on June 3rd. We’re going to meet again next Friday to determine the issues we want to try to tackle during the sprint and I guess everything else stays in the backlog? Then the plan is to do a 15 min standup daily to see where we’re at with those issues during the sprint. After it’s complete, we’ll go back and do the retrospective meeting.
I’m considered the product owner in this scenario and one of my team members who knows scrum and agile is going to be the scrum master for the meetings. I’m not sure if we’re doing it right, but I got buy-in from the team to give it a shot. It also gives me a visual representation of who’s doing what and how much work we have on our plate. Does this sound like a good plan?