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: AGILE PRINCIPLE#1:“Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software” VITALITY OF THE PRINCIPLE→ It is vital because
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
Are your Daily standups routine, boring 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 uncomfortable with the daily
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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