Introduction Scrum and Kanban are two of the most popular frameworks in agile, which have revolutionized the way teams deliver...
Introduction to Enterprise Agile Agile has been the go to approach for teams in building products in recent years. With...
What Is Business Agility? Business agility refers to an organization’s ability to quickly and effectively adapt to changes in the...
Introduction Scrum and Kanban are two of the most popular frameworks in agile, which have revolutionized the way teams deliver...
Introduction to Enterprise Agile Agile has been the go to approach for teams in building products in recent years. With...
What Is Business Agility? Business agility refers to an organization’s ability to quickly and effectively adapt to changes in the...
Why Should Organizations Be Agile? The purpose of Agile is not to create beautiful egalitarian processes or a product with every possible feature or an organization where people are happy and close to Nirvana. All these can be/should be byproducts and not the core focus. Core is always aligned with Read More
‘A checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps–the ones that even the highly skilled professional using them could miss’ – by Atul Gawande In the past two decades, ‘Agile’ has become the talk of the town. It might be the Read More
SAFe, or Scaled Agile Framework, is a set of principles and practices for Lean-Agile development and software engineering. It provides a framework for coordinating and aligning the efforts of multiple Agile teams, and helps organizations to scale Agile development to meet the needs of large, complex software development projects. SAFe Read More
“A timebox event within Agile Release Train (ART) which delivers incremental value in the form of a working software” is how SAFe defines a Program Increment (PI), and an effective PI requires work to be planned meticulously, transparently, and proactively. This article is an attempt to pen down a few hygiene Read More
In Scrum framework, retrospective is the last event of each sprint and has also been one of the most rushed events in our experience. This has meant that the event has failed in helping the team, consequently failing in its purpose and has thus been considered mostly as an helpless Read More
A “Team” is generally defined as a group of people. Who work together towards a shared goal. In my experience, effective interaction forms the bedrock of such a ‘team’ – a factor often taken for granted. All the more true in an agile environment, where one sees high levels of Read More
Tracking the progress through typical charts & metrics have often been boring & one of the kind is burn-down chart & hence decided to create my own innovation called the Beer down chart. Imagine, you are in a agile team and have a barrel of beer to finish. Every time you finish your beer, Read More
Scrum Alliance has published seven versions of Scrum Guide in a decade since the first version was published in 2010. Each version has been a reflection of the changing landscape of software development processes. We have tried to summarize the salient pointers of every Scrum Guide and implications of the changes Read More
How do we better utilize our time attending an insane number of meetings? Coaches get this asked a lot. While little can be done about the number of meetings just like driving in bumper to bumper traffic, we can surely improve the in-car time utilization! To make the situation worse, Read More
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 , Read More
