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…
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 Agile projects in the industry….
A scrum master is a team member mostly working towards keeping the agile principles intact within the team. A person who is responsible for facilitation of the ceremonies, educating the team on agile principles, solving team’s dependencies and ensuring to foster a healthy environment for product development. In a practical set up, we have seen…
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…
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 is fairly simple – we…
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 to describe relative sizing. Where the…
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 cross-functional team must be multi-tasking…
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 the value of the product…
Agile training is a form of education and professional development intervention focused on the Agile methodology and its principles, practices, and tools. The goal of Agile training is to help individuals and organizations understand and effectively implement the Agile ways of working. There are many different types of Agile training programs available, ranging from introductory…
A good Agile coach is the one who shares ‘Your’ goals & works hard till ‘You’ achieve them! My journey as the coach began in 2013. Frankly, speaking I wanted to work in agile space and found a job with the title Agile Coach. I googled what it meant and somehow it wasn’t such a popular…
