Introduction About Niko Niko Calendar Have you ever conducted an elaborate team engagement survey and found some numbers pointing to the team’s health but lacked a good insight into the real issues? Have you been left only with data points but no better understanding of the actual emotions of the team? Do you struggle to…
Introduction to Agile Transformation Roadmap Why should organizations pursue agility? What’s in it for them? We live in an age of chaos. Fast, rapid, unpredictable, and unprecedented changes drive the business environment. Technology, people, competition, global geopolitics, and social structures are changing at a pace that has not been seen in human history. ‘Knowing’ what…
Introduction to Product Roadmap Agile development is often associated with short-term planning to keep pace with changing customer needs and volatile business contexts. However, this doesn’t mean that long-term planning (read roadmaps) doesn’t matter or is not done. On the contrary, roadmaps (product roadmaps in the context of this blog) play a vital role in…
Introduction to Agile Methodology Process “Embracing uncertainty and embracing change is the heart of Agile.” — Jeff Sutherland Prior to Agile, software development followed traditional Waterfall methods, characterized by rigid planning, linear execution, and limited customer involvement. Projects were often delayed, over-budget, and failed to meet customer expectations. Agile turned the traditional approach on its…
Introduction to Self Organizing Team A self organizing team is a group of individuals who collectively take ownership of goals, decisions, and processes. They collaborate, share responsibilities and adapt to changing circumstances without external direction. In order for the teams to self-organize, the external environment should enable them to experience autonomy to decide, collective ownership…
Introduction to Agile Implementation Challenges In today’s fast changing environment of software development, Agile has become the go to mode of working to be more flexible, efficient, and improve continuously. With its benefits of delivering quality products faster and adapting to changing requirements, most of the organizations have moved towards agile ways of working . …
Introduction to Agile Manifesto and Principles In the early 1990s, software development was going through something called “the application development crisis.” People started to notice a significant lag in the delivery of new software development applications. It was taking them too long to deliver the projects, and often when the projects were delivered, they were…
Introduction to Agile Team Structure Agile is one of the most widely accepted ways-of-working to approach a project in recent times in the industry. Organizations are choosing agile over other approaches to reap the benefits of increased customer satisfaction, responding to market changes, and staying relevant in the VUCA world. Agile is a different way…
Planning and initiation is a key part of any project be it a traditional project or an agile project. While traditional project delivery includes planning everything up front and then moving to design and other phases, agile planning involves a concept of “Just enough”. Why does Agile recommend ‘just enough planning’? In this VUCA world,…
Traditional projects had requirements in the form of work breakdown structure which were written as features (Ex: login feature, search feature). With this type of requirement writing, development teams wrote code while keeping in mind the specifications written by the business analyst. However, a single project had multiple personas involved with each likely to use…
