What Is The Agile Onion?
Have you ever heard of an Agile Onion? If not, then stay tuned, we will introduce this smart agile ingredient in the remaining article. As facilitators, If you come across teams where they only believe in responding to a change is true essence of agile instead of following a plan you need to stop them […]
How to do Backlog Refinement using Three Amigos Strategy
Backlog refinement is an essential activity that keeps the product backlog in a healthy shape. The Product Backlog is owned by the Product Owner, who is responsible to maintain backlog in the right order with the help of the Development Team. Read more : Product backlog and Backlog Refinement here. There are many different ways […]
How to conduct Sprint Retrospective
As I write this blog on Sprint Retrospective, without a second thought in my mind I can avowedly term it as the most important sprint ceremony. A sprint retrospective is an opportunity for the entire Scrum Team to inspect and create an improvement plan to be adopted and acted upon. These conclusions are communicated across and suggestions […]
Why do you need a Scrum Master?
Why do you need a Scrum Master? Whenever someone asked me this, I suggested them to go back to the basics and read where it is written What is Scrum. Suggested Read: Definition of Scrum Once you open the book you will find that the Scrum Guide says – Scrum is Difficult to Master Now […]
The 4 Best Leadership Styles of the Era
When you think about leaders, what crosses your mind first? What kind of a leader and which all leadership styles do you imagine? “The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up […]
Sprint Retrospective
A Sprint Retrospective gives the scrum team a platform to discuss things that are going well, things that could go better, and some suggestions for changes. It helps promote ownership and responsibility by the project team Common issues that should be addressed are identified by asking the underlined questions: Participants Time-box This ceremony has a […]
Why Command and Control Leadership Doesn’t Work.
A command and control approach to leadership is founded on and emphasizes a distinction between, executives and workers. Such leaders are authoritative and generally a bit more rigid and hierarchical than others. They take ownership of identifying the goal and create a scheduled plan for their subordinates. Command and control systems may seem to be a great […]
Agile Metrics & Characteristics
Most of the business organizations use agile metrics to track and measure the performance of a specific process. Among all these metrics that are vital for the entire business we can select few and mark them as KPIs. This further helps in capturing effectiveness around the achievement of key goals and objectives. Before we dive […]
Agile: It’s a way of living
When you think about the elemental meaning of Agile what first strikes your mind! Do the words like Athletic, Quick, Nimble, Active, Lively, Spree ring any bell. If yes you got it right this is what Agile is quick and well-coordinated or say the ability to react quickly. We can add many industry jargon’s to […]
