Introduction Agile Release Train Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe is one of the most trusted set of principles, practices and structures companies adopt to scale their agile practices at an organization or enterprise level. Companies adopt SAFe with a purpose of achieving their goals hand in hand reaping the benefits of business itself being agile. …
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates Introduction Why Release Planning Matters You know that feeling when you are just waiting for something big to drop – a new app, a fresh update, maybe even a game, and then, it’s…
“Discipline is doing what needs to be done, even if you don’t want to do it.” – A quote I read on my school’s ‘Thought of the day’ board on my way to daily morning assembly. We live in this crazy world, obsessed with freedom, autonomy and the thrill of venturing into the unknown. We…
Introduction Our industry has gone through multiple iterations of how value is delivered to a customer/consumer over the years. There have been a lot of new ways of working which have emerged to either fit in the change in dynamics or what made sense at that particular point in time. From traditional waterfall methodology till…
Learning is NOT a ‘knowing‘ exercise only. Often when Learning teams, CLOs, L&Ds are planning agile training sessions, they specifically stress on contextualisation and customisation of their learning programs. We have been part of so many discussions where ‘abstractness’ has been called out as something undesirable. It is not true. Abstractness gives people a framework/platform/introduction to…
Introduction To Agile Metrics Due to the ever-changing business dynamics in the past couple of decades, agile ways of working have sidelined other approaches in the software development space. Initially, this transition faced a lot of resistance due to the nature of vague explanations to specific and pointed questions by the stakeholders and the leadership’s…
Introduction to Agile Transformation Roadmap Why should organizations pursue agility? What’s in it for them? We live in an age of chaos. Fast, rapid, unpredictable, and unprecedented changes drive the business environment. Technology, people, competition, global geopolitics, and social structures are changing at a pace that has not been seen in human history. ‘Knowing’ what…
Introduction to Agile Vs Lean There has always been confusion regarding whether Agile and Lean (Agile vs Lean) are the same. While Agile methodology and Lean share similar intent and principles, their application can vary depending on the nature of the work. Popular frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP are often used in software development to…
Introduction to Agile Project Management Techniques The term “Agile” has become a catchphrase in today’s rapidly evolving digital transformation era. Agile embodies values like flexibility, transparency and adaptability and it’s increasingly being integrated into a variety of processes and projects across industries. The Agile approach is based on four fundamental values and twelve guiding principles,…
Introduction to Enterprise Scrum In this VUCA world, product development and business execution are no longer just following the same processes and delivering a piece of code. It is all about understanding the customer needs or market demands and staying relevant by taking feedback and pivoting. To do so, teams and products have used one…
