Agile transformation is a journey which organizations take to help teams move towards better and relevant ways of working. Two of the main mindsets of agile are “Inspect and adapt” and “Continuous Improvement”, agile transformation also follows the same principles where teams and businesses lay out a plan for the 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
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 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
What is an OKR? Goal setting for the teams around strategic objectives has always been prevalent. Why the new interest in OKR? The answer may lie in the huge traction and adoption of Agile across organizations. The intent of this blog is to simplify the context of OKR and to draw 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
