Category: Agile

Sprint Events Summary   Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective Goal Create the Sprint goal & Plan to reach the goal (Sprint Backlog) Inspect & Adapt towards sprint goal & Plan for the day Inspect and Adapt on usable product increment developed Inspect & Adapt to be Effective / Efficient & Continous Improvement Input Ready Product Backlog Items Current State of the work Useable & “Done” Increment Observations, Patterns, Ideas, Metrics & Issues Output Sprint Goal & Sprint Backlog Plan for the day & Identification of impediments Acceptance,…

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12 Principles Behind The Agile Manifesto Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. This agile principle has three focus areas Releasing software early Delivering value continuously Satisfying the customer. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage. While this agile principle actually focus on process adaptability to change. But unfortunately it is often interpreted as people should adapt to change or complain the team is not agile.   Deliver working software frequently, from a…

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Manifesto for Agile Software Development *Reference : Core Scrum, Scrum Alliance. Agile Manifesto Agile Manifesto & Scrum Individuals & interactions over processes & tools. The Scrum framework promotes effective interaction between team members so the team delivers value to the business. Scrum team self-organize to deliver the business value.  Scrum encourages the team members to work together to achieve the single goal by valuing individuals and interactions over process and tools. Working software over comprehensive documentation. Scrum Team focus their actions towards the goal, build winning product.  Scrum encourages the…

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XP: Engineering Practices Extreme Programming (XP) has listed a few engineering practices that helps the team to develop high quality product, focus on simplicity, reduce risks, better designs & deliver early and incrementally. Even though these practices were originally practiced in XP, over time these practices are being found used in many frameworks. In the recent trend teams developing products with Scrum framework are using extensively & find it tremendously useful to achieve their goals.  Some of the well-known engineering practices are listed below.   Pair Programming Pair Programming mimics driver…

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Definition of ReadyDefinition of Ready (DoR) is one of the tools/techniques for product backlog management. DoR is mutually agreed just sufficient and just in time information required for the teams to start working towards the product increment. If you observe these symptoms in the team, then DoR might help the team to over come the root cause issue 1. Lots of feedback during the sprint review 2. uncertainty during the sprint and team members are waiting for clarifications 3. delay in clarifications / decision making 4. huge rework during or after…

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When someone invests money they always look forward for the best, you would be wondering who is the Best CSM trainer in India? Firstly all Certified Scrum Master training are done by qualified and well respected Certified Scrum Trainers from Scrum Alliance. it’s not question about the best CSM trainer, it’s more of is the trainer able to connect with you and their examples, experiences and style enables your style of learning. CSM training is very common these days, and many Indian and non-Indian trainers conduct CSM training, one has…

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Cancel Sprint Though Cancelling the sprint isn’t a frequent situation. In Scrum framework it’s at the discretion of the Product Owner(PO) to cancel the sprint if PO realize that the sprint goal and plan isn’t adding value to the product. In Scrum only PO has the authority to cancel sprint. After cancelling the sprint, product backlog is updated with latest priorities and value for the product, any work done during the sprint if valuable is reviewed and rest is thrashed or pushed back to product backlog and the next sprint starts…

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