Thomas Sowell once said, ‘People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything’. 🙂 By the way, Daily Stand-up aka Daily Scrum is not called out as a meeting, as the makers are smart and they quote it as an ‘event’ which will lead to minimizing the meetings not mentioned in the Scrum…
Introduction To Agile Project Management Software Tools Discover the top 15 Agile project management tools, complete with detailed insights into their pros and cons, key features, and popular usage. Enhance your project efficiency with our comprehensive guide to the best Agile tools available. NiftyPM JIRA ProofHub Smartsheet Wrike Zoho Sprints Monday.com Teamwork Active Collab Version…
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change. – Confucius The word ‘Agile’ got popular in business circles a few decades back but how could any business survive without being agile? The businesses have always faced the challenge of changing market dynamics, competition with peers, environmental consequences due to geo-political nature and what…
How To Improve Team Communication A “Team” is generally defined as a group of people. Who work together towards a shared goal. In my experience, effective interaction forms the bedrock of such a ‘team’ – a factor often taken for granted. All the more true in an agile environment, where one sees high levels of…
A “Team” is generally defined as a group of people. Who work together towards a shared goal. In my experience, effective interaction forms the bedrock of such a ‘team’ – a factor often taken for granted. All the more true in an agile environment, where one sees high levels of ambiguity, uncertainty and diversity. Some…
Planning, no matter what the occasion, happens almost everyday.Planning is an activity which describes the activities , resources, timelines needed to deliver the output in the question. In the scrum framework the timeline & resources ( Human Resources ) are fixed. The duration of an iteration or sprint is timeboxed. The capacity of the Scrum team…
We have finite time at hand for everything in this world. As human beings we often don’t place a start and end time for many activities of our life. As a result we procrastinate and the activities in the to-do list keep moving to the next slot on the timeline/calendar. Activities in which we expect…
What is the Best Day to Start and End the Sprint? Scrum doesn’t inherently prescribe any set day to start a sprint. This begs the question if the topic bears any merit. And if yes, then what might be the best suitable day to start a sprint? We believe this is a topic of some…
One of the major challenges we have encountered during agile transformation journeys at our clients is to solve how to ensure that Product Owners write good user stories! Many POs, in our experience, dilute the essence of user stories by obsessing on the technicalities and overlooking user engagement and focus. POs should take the user-centric approach to…
Sprint Planning is one of the 5 events in Scrum.The duration or length of this event is anything between 2-4 hrs, across a 2 week period. This is a recurring event that happens on the first day of every sprint.This blog captures some pointers that all participants must bear in mind to plan effectively on the work…
