Traditional projects had requirements in the form of work breakdown structure which were written as features (Ex: login feature, search feature). With this type of requirement writing, development teams wrote code while keeping in mind the specifications written by the business analyst. However, a single project had multiple personas involved with each likely to use…
“Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.” – Norman Ralph Augustine Sarcasm is also an intent in mentioning the above quote and at the same time, it is to showcase the wide presence of auditors in today’s corporate world who are primarily responsible for…
Any project involves Planning, Doing, Checking, and Acting/Adjusting as part of the delivery (the all-familiar PDCA). We start with requirement gathering, move to planning followed by designing, and then proceed with development, testing, and deployment in that order. These are the basic steps involved in the development of software or basic steps to follow for…
“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…
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…
Any product or service delivered to a customer has to go through a series of steps or a process flow. Organizations do define a process or flow through which the customer needs are satisfied. A value stream is the set of actions that take place to add value to a customer from the initial request…
SAFe stands for ‘Scaled Agile Framework’ and stands tall as one of the popular and widely applied approaches for organizations who want to drive SAFe transformation, bringing agility at all levels.i.e Many such approaches are prevalent in the market like the Spotify model, Nexus, LeSS, LeSS Huge, Scrum at Scale, DAD, etc. but what distinct…
