The second part of digital officer Charlotte Brewer’s series on content sprinting.
In my last blog post about the sprint way of working, I introduced it as a concept and looked at how we did sprint planning. In this post, I’ll show what it’s like to do the work as part of the content team in a sprint.
Do the work
Once the sprint planning meeting is over, we get stuck into the list of tasks.
Each task is a specific, distinct thing that we need to do to complete the goal of the sprint. For our students’ Top Tasks sprint, these included:
- Draft a template invitation email
- Book rooms
- Contact an International Officer to get list of international students
- Email these students an invitation to a focus group
- Contact the Mature Student Adviser to get list of mature students
- Email these students an invitation to a focus group
- Collate a list of URLs across the website that answers students’ FAQs (spoiler: there is a lot of duplication)
Once we finish one task, we move onto the next task. Some of these are small enough for one of us to easily complete it. Others are bigger and need us all to work on it at once. Some tasks are straightforward, while some become blocked. This is where daily stand-ups come in.
Continue reading: Content sprinting – part two
