Introduction to Vertical Slicing and Horizontal Slicing Agile is all about delivering value incrementally and iteratively. Gone are those days where teams develop and deliver features once in 3-6 months. Teams in these modern days, plan just enough, develop small increments and continuously deliver small features which can be used by the users. But one…
Introduction The industry has seen a lot of traditional goal setting frameworks. Different companies use different frameworks based on their needs. However, there has been a shift in all organizations trying to adapt to a robust milestone driven goal setting framework. What generally happens with traditional frameworks is that the goals become diluted with respect…
Introduction One of the most important principles of agile is to Inspect and Adapt. Agile helps teams with multi level opportunities for inspecting and adapting. While in every cadence there is an opportunity for the product to increment there is also an equal opportunity for people and process to increment. Sprint retrospective is one of…
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…
Agile ways of working have helped a lot of organizations to stay relevant in recent times in the industry. Mainly because they can continuously deliver small chunks of work, get feedback and pivot in case there is a change. This is agility in general. Being agile means that teams and organizations understand the 4 manifesto…
Introduction How to calculate WIP limits in Kanban is essential knowledge for any agile team. One of the very common anti-patterns we have seen in our engagements as an agile consulting and coaching company, is that team members pull a work item, and without finishing that (for several reasons), they start working on a new…
How often do you come across this overwhelming feeling of when can I finish my work or keep staring at an endless to-do list or get tensed over missed deadlines? How often do you curse yourself for not being able to balance work and personal life? To be honest, according to a recent study by…
Introduction One of the main principles of agile ways of working is to inspect and adapt. The iterative and incremental development brings in the benefit of continuously improving the product along with people and process. While at the end of every iteration, product increments with features, there is also another ceremony which is recommended to…
Introduction Traditional project delivery methodologies involved planning everything upfront with a great amount of details and certainty. However, this could later prove to become chaotic as changes in requirements or priority could not be handled effectively because of the amount of time spent for the same. Agile ways of working could to a great extent…
Introduction For any organisation to be relevant, they have to constantly deliver value to the customers. When they have a lot of items, thoughts, ideas to deliver, it becomes important to know what deserves your immediate attention and that makes a huge difference between success and burnout. Whether you are managing projects/products, chasing long term…
