INCI Beauty application

Areski

Hello

As part of my end-of-training project, I must establish a fictional team to improve the functions and user experience of the INCI Beauty app (similar to YUKA and Think Dirty). As a multimedia project manager and UX/UI lead, I have 3 developers to work with me. We use the Scrum method and rely on task management tools such as Jira or Trello, Notion and Figma for UX/UI, and Data.AI for data. I am not sure of the tools and languages used to develop this existing app for iOS and Android. Could you give me your opinion on my team and the project management approach I have taken, is it logical for this type of project?
Thank you.

Walter Buggenhout

Hi @Areski and welcome to the Community!

To be perfectly open and honest, what you describe above does not resonate like a project management approach to me. But having said that, you describe most of the things involved to run it, which is a very decent plus!

Running your project does involve people, practices and tools. You described your team (👍), indicate that you would use scrum (👍) as a methodology and listed your toolset (👍). To answer your question if this is a good package for your project, the key is to answer why you made all these choices. If you can pull that off, I would say you're on the right track.

Scrum as a methodology is a well known approach for development teams. It implies that you plan your work in 2-week iterations (sprints). Your developers should have enough of clearly specified work on their plate when the sprint starts and while they deliver the features, your functional people should make sure that enough work is ready to picked up when the next sprint is about to start. At the end of the sprint, the team demoes what has been developed and a retrospective takes place to discuss improvements to the way the team is working. Changes are then implemented on a regular basis.

To support your planning, Jira Software is the best tool since it supports scrum's sprint planning out of the box. But Trello may have its place as well to support ideation, brainstorms and other, more free-form work. You may want to add Confluence to your stack as well for documentation, collaboration and stuff like meeting notes

Finally, to assess whether scrum is the right approach depends on the nature of your project. You mention this is a UI/UX improvement project. If the UI of the application is so terrible that you are facing a 6 month + project with many steps, then it would be worth planning sprints for it. If it will be completed in 2 or 3 weeks, then you immediately see how it's not even worth taking the effort to start planning sprints for it. Unless - and this is what usually happens in organizations - the project is one of many projects you are addressing with the same team.

Hope this helps! And all the best with your project!