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 “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu Similarly, the journey of a successful product begins with a well-groomed Product Backlog. I remember a time, early in my Agile career, when our backlog resembled an archaeological dig site. User requests, half-baked ideas, and ancient bugs lay buried beneath…
Introduction In a world obsessed with more, bigger and faster, a quiet revolution is brewing – the just enough mindset. It is not about cutting corners; instead, a deliberate and powerful approach to work and life that emphasizes effectiveness over excess, impact over volume, and learning over perfection. My grandfather used to tell me a…
Introduction Scum Master’s role is one of the three most important roles in teams following scrum while working in Agile ways of working. Scrum master is a crucial and one of the most important roles in a scrum team. A scrum master is responsible for facilitating all the scrum ceremonies in the team, ensuring all…
Introduction Whether you are a project manager, a scrum master, an agile coach or a stakeholder it is important to track and predict the project status for successful delivery of a project. Out of the many tools available for managing projects in Agile ways of working, we will discuss about Velocity Chart in this blog….
Introduction “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry In the dynamic world of Agile, the Product Owner (PO) stands as a pivotal figure, the champion of the product vision, and the crucial link between stakeholders and the development…
Learning is NOT a ‘knowing‘ exercise only. Often when Learning teams, CLOs, L&Ds are planning agile training sessions, they specifically stress on contextualisation and customisation of their learning programs. We have been part of so many discussions where ‘abstractness’ has been called out as something undesirable. It is not true. Abstractness gives people a framework/platform/introduction to…
Introduction ‘Running fast in the wrong direction is worse than walking slowly in the right one.’ – something like this quoted by Simon Sinek on X Today’s business arena demands not just speed, but also strategic agility. The true meaning of agility is also about moving continuously towards the right direction which might have been…
