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 Read More
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 importance, and will try to make Read More
Scrum Master is an important role in the Scrum framework who keeps the agility intact within the team. Scrum master plays two roles within the team one is with the development team and the other is with the Product Owner and the stakeholders. With the development team, the Scrum Master Read More
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 Read More
This blog’s main idea is to guide project teams to make full use of JIRA to run a scrum project. Jira is a sophisticated tool which is highly designed to run Agile projects. With predefined templates, boards, reports and metrics, it is one of the most used tools to run Read More
User stories are single line requirements in the form of a story of what an end user wants and why. An ideal user story format followed by the industry is “As a , i want , so that . The reason why agile requirements are in the form of user stories Read More
If you are a scrum team member practicing sprints for some time then you may have encountered confusion around story points & velocity. Here are the few commonly asked questions – Let’s clarify these concepts one by one. Firstly, let’s clear the confusion around story points. Story points is a famously used term Read More
This blog covers one of the most critical traits of Agile development – A cross-functional team is a group of people with all the required skill sets to work together and finish a specific task without dependencies on people outside the team. It doesn’t mean that a member of a Read More
Bringing change through agile coaching is a 3 step journey – An agile coach helps a target area to attain the different levels till that focused group becomes self-organizing, self-managing and high performing. This Blog aims at understanding What is Agile Coaching? Agile coaching is an act of helping organizations and teams adopt and improve Read More
A Product Roadmap is a list of key delivery focus areas. It mainly answers two questions : A Product roadmap must not be confused with a Project Plan. A roadmap communicates a clear vision of a product – the direction we want to take.The roadmap’s core intent is to capture Read More
