Bruno Peeters Technical Blog

Within scrum, the work is divided in tasks. Tasks are in scrum the smallest unit to define work. A task ideally must not get longer than 1 day to get completed. Getting the story to it’s state done, involves at least getting these tasks to done. What is the advantage of defining tasks?

Agile encourages building software with the end user in mind. It will then help to have a clear and common understanding of this end user within the team. Therefore you can use a so-called persona. Personas represent fictitious people, based on the teams knowledge of the end user. Within this persona you will together write all the details that are of interesting when defining the user stories within your project.

Last year I embraced the Getting Things Done methodology of David Allen. “Be a collector of good ideas, but don’t trust your memory – Jim Rohn” is the main philosophy of Getting Things Done (GTD). Within GTD all tasks you want to accomplice, you write down at one central place. At regular intervals you empty this list. Seems a lot like Agile? Yes. This is exact a version of our backlog. But since there are two methods, having two different names, there should be some difference. Or not? Can I use Agile to perform all the tasks within life and also the higher level ones like your long term goals? And what about the other way around? Could GTD be used to organise a software project? Let’s have a look at the different area’s both methods tries to get grip on.

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