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…
To measure is to know. If you can not measure it, you can not improve it. – Lord Kelvin Like any other assessment, agility maturity assessment also happens at every state of agile implementation & that too frequently. We have used Agile Maturity Assessment in measuring the state of agile implementation at many levels –…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 is a person who facilitates…
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…
