Introduction to Vertical Slicing and Horizontal Slicing Agile is all about delivering value incrementally and iteratively. Gone are those days where teams develop and deliver features once in 3-6 months. Teams in these modern days, plan just enough, develop small increments and continuously deliver small features which can be used by the users. But one…

Introduction One of the most important principles of agile is to Inspect and Adapt. Agile helps teams with multi level opportunities for inspecting and adapting. While in every cadence there is an opportunity for the product to increment there is also an equal opportunity for people and process to increment. Sprint retrospective is one of…

Introduction Our industry has gone through multiple iterations of how value is delivered to a customer/consumer over the years. There have been a lot of new ways of working which have emerged to either fit in the change in dynamics or what made sense at that particular point in time. From traditional waterfall methodology till…

Agile ways of working have helped a lot of organizations to stay relevant in recent times in the industry. Mainly because they can continuously deliver small chunks of work, get feedback and pivot in case there is a change. This is agility in general. Being agile means that teams and organizations understand the 4 manifesto…

Introduction How to calculate WIP limits in Kanban is essential knowledge for any agile team. One of the very common anti-patterns we have seen in our engagements as an agile consulting and coaching company, is that team members pull a work item, and without finishing that (for several reasons), they start working on a new…

Introduction One of the main principles of agile ways of working is to inspect and adapt. The iterative and incremental development brings in the benefit of continuously improving the product along with people and process. While at the end of every iteration, product increments with features, there is also another ceremony which is recommended to…

Introduction  Traditional project delivery methodologies involved planning everything upfront with a great amount of details and certainty. However, this could later prove to become chaotic as changes in requirements or priority could not be handled effectively because of the amount of time spent for the same.  Agile ways of working could to a great extent…