Category: Agile

“Agile” has gained tremendous popularity in recent years and many organizations have adopted agile ways of working for their project/product delivery. But what is the fuss all about? Let’s understand in detail.  Time has become a critical factor in delivering a product, you snooze you lose. That is, if you delay delivering a critical feature,…

Here are the top 15 Agile Best Practices Guide for Building Highly Effective Teams. Create the sprint backlog during the planning meeting Encourage self-organizing teams Maintain charts to monitor progress Sprint reviews to present work Sprint retrospectives to learn from the previous sprint Release planning meeting to create a release plan Cross training Creating an…

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…

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. – by Sun Tzu What will suit my organization better in agile vs scrum? Which is better in agile methodology vs scrum? How do I choose between agile and scrum methodology? What is the difference between agile versus…

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 event. There could be broadly…

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…

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, you go to counter and…