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…
What is Design thinking? Design thinking is a process that emphasizes the development of solutions that are user-centric and driven by the customer’s needs. It is an iterative approach that involves understanding user needs, brainstorming solutions, prototyping, testing, and refining the solution to create a better user experience. The process involves ideation, problem-solving, and creative…
Introduction To Agile Strategies In the digital age organizations have to constantly adapt to a VUCA environment, stay ahead of their competition, implement Agile Transformation Strategies, know what their customer wants and deliver the right products faster. How do they do it consistently, successfully and in a scalable way? The solution lies in constant innovation…
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 the business objective – responding…
“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 elements to bear in mind…
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 and updates in this blog. Please…
It won’t be an exaggeration to say that out of the millions of Agile practitioners, the majority is stuck at ‘doing agile’ while being unaware or worse ignoring the bigger picture. Why? A simple reason – When you start zooming in a lot, it is not easy to zoom out. People are stuck in tit-bit…
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…
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…
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…
