Any project involves Planning, Doing, Checking, and Acting/Adjusting as part of the delivery (the all-familiar PDCA). We start with requirement gathering, move to planning followed by designing, and then proceed with development, testing, and deployment in that order. These are the basic steps involved in the development of software or basic steps to follow for…
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…
“Agile” has gained tremendous popularity in recent years and many organizations have adopted agile ways of working for their project/product delivery. But what is the fuss all about? Let’s understand in detail. Time has become a critical factor in delivering a product, you snooze you lose. That is, if you delay delivering a critical feature,…
Here are the top 15 Agile Best Practices Guide for Building Highly Effective Teams. Create the sprint backlog during the planning meeting Encourage self-organizing teams Maintain charts to monitor progress Sprint reviews to present work Sprint retrospectives to learn from the previous sprint Release planning meeting to create a release plan Cross training Creating an…
Any product or service delivered to a customer has to go through a series of steps or a process flow. Organizations do define a process or flow through which the customer needs are satisfied. A value stream is the set of actions that take place to add value to a customer from the initial request…
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. …
Introduction Agile recommends teams to be cross functional and that implies teams to be composed of people with different skill sets who can convert a requirement into a working software. Let’s take an example of a requirement / user story which has come up for a team which involves Design, Backend , Frontend and QA folks. There…
In an Agile project, one most misunderstood concept, which is vital for the project is “Velocity”. While different teams understand velocity in their own way, this blog aims to explain what is “Velocity”? What is the significance of it? And what teams can do to increase it? Let’s try to understand the term “velocity” before…
Planning is an essential, inevitable and very first phase of any project be it a conventional project or an Agile Project. The basic idea behind planning any software project is to find answers to some basic questions like : With the industry and technology evolution over the years, ever increasing competition , constantly changing customer needs,…
Sprinting is all about improving the product, process and people. Retrospection is the last ceremony in the sprint which helps enable the teams to improve their process and people front. While it is one of the crucial ceremonies, retro is also the most ignored ceremony amongst teams.Below are a few very common antipatterns which we…
