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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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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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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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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How many hours does a Story Point equal to?
Story points were meant to be abstract. This abstraction helped bring a discussion back to work (size, complexity, bigness, etc.). In the absence of story points (in the earlier days), people would often argue about hours, leading to a lot of emotions around time. A real time scenario between my Boss and me is presented […]
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When is scrum most effective?
Don’t use Scrum when you don’t need to! In fact, Scrum isn’t supposed to be effective for every type of development. Many teams and organizations use Scrum without understanding when and where it is most effective. It costs them time without much impact on added value or creativity Scrum comes with overheads – The Scrum […]
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Tackling Unfinished Stories at the end of a Sprint
More often than not, most Agile teams have committed stories that are not finished by the time a Sprint ends. Teams struggle to understand the best way on how to address incomplete work. The easiest option most teams choose is to simply put those (unfinished) stories into the next Sprint. The problem with this option […]
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A Meaningful Dashboard for Agile Teams
Metrics are important for Agile teams. It is wiser to focus on a handful of simple balanced metrics rather than hoard of metrics that does not give much value to the team or organization. In fact, it creates more noise. A good team creates the metrics to understand how it is doing, what it needs […]
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A Fool With A Tool Will Still Be A Fool
Having worked in the Agile space for many years, and having experimented with so many ideas including processes, tools and work dynamics between people, I’ve come to realize that although the tools are important, they are not enough by themselves in creating effectiveness at work. A lot of people in the corporate world think that […]
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