Introductions to Agile Principles  In today’s environment, continuous evolution, responding to change and ever increasing demands are must for every organization. Agility in practice, both at organizational and individual levels, thus becomes very important and key to giving an organization a competitive edge. Agility in its simplest sense is nothing but continually moving in the…

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change. – Confucius The word ‘Agile’ got popular in business circles a few decades back but how could any business survive without being agile? The businesses have always faced the challenge of changing market dynamics, competition with peers, environmental consequences due to geo-political nature and what…

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 ambiguity, uncertainty and diversity. Some…

Planning, no matter what the occasion, happens almost everyday.Planning is an activity which describes the activities , resources, timelines needed to deliver the output in the question. In the scrum framework the timeline & resources ( Human Resources ) are fixed. The duration of an iteration or sprint is timeboxed. The capacity of the Scrum team…

We have finite time at hand for everything in this world. As human beings we often don’t place a start and end time for many activities of our life. As a result we procrastinate and the activities in the to-do list keep moving to the next slot on the timeline/calendar. Activities in which we expect…

One of the major challenges we have encountered during agile transformation journeys at our clients is to solve how to ensure that Product Owners write good user stories! Many POs, in our experience, dilute the essence of user stories by obsessing on the technicalities and overlooking user engagement and focus. POs should take the user-centric approach to…

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 “9 Effective Sprint Planning Steps” captures some pointers that all participants must bear…

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…