Scrum Master's Prospective

First of all, a PROJECT is defined as,

 "Projects can be further defined as temporary rather than permanent social systems or work systems that are constituted by teams within or across organizations to accomplish particular tasks under time constraints."

That's by the Wikipedia guys. But what comes to my mind remembering of a project is not pleasant. It's a burden, a stress as well as a mess that requires a severe effort to put up with. So basically what I intended to say was, "I hate Projects". But why am I saying that I hate projects? There's a list of things that made me say that..

• Having to do all the work alone
• Being the only person in the group who knows designing, logical approach etc..
• Having no contribution from team members

Often I tend to say "මේ රෙද්ද තනියෙං කරා නං ලේසියි". So I think I blamed enough so that everyone would feel bad about a project. But, (ya you're right I'm gonna say something good).

If a project is properly handled, and if there are capable talented members (which we do) and if there's a proper approach; I don't think that there will be anything stopping a project to succeed! (In the group member prospective).

This project is special for me. Myself (Janitha), Shiran and Sankalpa are from the same school (Richmond College Galle), did AL's together same year in the same stream (Mathematics) and entered SLIIT together but different places.  Sankalpa and I were the founding members of RITS (Richmond College IT society) and I were the secretary there. And in the 3rd and final year we are all back together with another good dude; Poorna and we finally got to do a project together. 

Myself, Shiran and Sankalpa were the Project Leaders of of the previous groups that we were in. So there was no concern about who the leader should be in this project. Everyone has an even capacity of doing a project exceptionally well. I wanted Shiran to be the peoject leader but his excuse was "අත බෑ ඒ.. අත බෑ...". Haha fair enough I said...

Anyway the goal is set. We need to do a given project throughout a period of a whole year and should give everything we have in order to get a good grade in this. We still haven't got the project that we have to work with. But once we get the project, I'm pretty sure that we would do it quite well considering the capabilities of the members in this team. 

I got to say it's a privilege for me to be the leader (Scrum Master in Agile terms) in this project that we are about to do. Everything won't be perfect, but we all will be trying our best to keep the mistakes to a minimal level. This concludes the Scrum Master's message..

- Janitha Senevirathna