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…
When it comes to agile adoption in an organization, there are agile consulting firms which help set up Agile practices and mindset within an organization which want an outside-in or an external perspective in case there are no in-house coaches to implement the same or there are competent members but organizations want to vet their current ways…
If you are looking at scaling agile in your organisation and are considering the Spotify model as one of your options , you have landed at the right place. In this blog, we will attempt to explain the basics of the model listed below and why your organization should explore it as a serious scaling approach. What…
Struggling to differentiate between an epic and a user story in Agile? Wondering if the requirement you have should be treated as an epic or a story? This write up will help you get clarity on epic and a user story and explain details around both. Let’s begin with a very simple definition of an…
