Story points measure the estimated effort needed to complete a work item, serving as a standard unit of measurement for comparing and estimating different items. They help teams plan and prioritize work more effectively by providing a better understanding of the overall effort required for a project or sprint. Story points’ actual values are not […]
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The Caring Servant Leaders
Leadership is not just about achieving results. It’s about building a culture of empathy, support, and growth. As a leader, you have the power to inspire your team and create positive change in the world. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. So how can you become a […]
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Agile Principle #1
Transform the way you approach product development with the first Agile Principle – customer satisfaction through continuous delivery! For this a Scrum Team needs to understand: 1. Why this principle is vital? 2. How it’s often neglected? and, 3. What to bear in mind while delivering products? AGILE PRINCIPLE#1: “Our highest priority is to satisfy […]
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Alistair Cockburn’s Effectiveness of Communication
I recently attended a 2-day training. The trainer was an expert in his field, his talk was engaging but only the trainer and I had our cameras ON. Rest of the participants barely showed their faces There was learning, but the entire 2 days looked very “businessy” and transactional. There was hardly any bonding between […]
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How to facilitate effective daily stand-ups
Have you ever been part of a daily stand-up meeting that left you feeling uninspired and unproductive? Daily stand-ups are a hot topic in the world of scrum and often create a sense of controversy. It’s not uncommon for teams to struggle with the purpose and frequency of these meetings. Some team members may feel […]
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Agilized Waterfall vs Agile
Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Scrum Teams will find it useful to download and place it near their team workspace – either on digital (Miro, Mural etc.) or print and tape it on a physical wall (in office) When working hard to quickly create stories and work items without understanding the big picture, […]
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Effective “Utilization” of Employees
Have you heard the phrase? – “Watch the Baton, not the runners?” Translated to development work, it means: “Focus on Idle work, not Idle workers”! (Image 1) I still come across management finding ways to extract most out of their developers by assigning them to multiple projects The thinking is to get 100% […]
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A tip on creating good user stories
Experiment and Believe! So many times while using Agile, we get convinced with popular notions only to find that they don’t provide much value. Perhaps the people who made those notions popular were meaning something else? It happened to me years ago! One such notion I believed for years was, that, if it’s a small […]
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Managers in Scrum
We all know that the Scrum Team consists of the three main roles – Scrum Master, Product Owner and Developers (erstwhile Development Team) Where do Managers fit in then? Many think that Managers do not have a role in Agile and Scrum. Some even say that Managers are not necessary and teams can survive and […]
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What does Velocity represent in Scrum?
Agile team members work together to groom, plan, commit, and deliver work every sprint. The number of story points that a team delivers in a sprint is known as velocity. Velocity Definition Velocity is thus a measure of the speed (ideally, expressed in story points) at which an agile team delivers work every sprint. […]
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