How to use Agile swarming techniques to get features done
Agile teams can produce a viable product in no time when they swarm, but this all-hands approach to creating a user story or feature isn’t straightforward.
Agile swarming is a technique development teams use to quickly finish a feature or user story. The team members with available time and appropriate skills work together, or “swarm,” to complete an in-progress novel. The goal is to deliver high-value features quickly by focusing the entire team on the product backlog items that make up that feature. Agile swarming aids in increasing developer productivity and producing a viable product within an iteration. It requires all team members to commit to the focus of the swarm and is not an individual practice.
The benefits of Agile swarming include improved velocity and delivering a viable product faster. To succeed with Agile swarming, it is essential to stay goal focused, not task-focused, and to hold regular meetings to review work status and realign team members as necessary. Agile swarming differs from mob and pair programming, which involve multiple team members working on a single task or feature.
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