Project management coaching and consulting
In iteration-based agile, the product owner often works with the team to prepare some stories for the upcoming iteration during one or more sessions in the middle of the iteration. The purpose of these meetings is to refine enough stories so the team understands what the stories are and how large the stories are in […]
SCRUM Epics and Stories: In Agile, requirements get refined as they get decomposed. The most popular units of requirement in SCRUM are Epics and Stories Themes & Epics Themes are the most abstract form of a requirement in Agile or SCRUM. It is a group of features and user stories that share a common attribute, […]
A Product Roadmap Is a high-level, strategic plan, that describes the likely development of the product over the next period of time. Video: Product Roadmap Need for a Roadmap The roadmap should support the products’ Roadmap briefing is an Agile ceremony that happens typically anywhere between once in a quarter to once a year. Here […]
There are primarily four SCRUM ceremonies that we can go through in chronological order. Video: SCRUM Ceremonies Sprint Planning First in order comes Sprint Planning. Now typically this comes on the first day of the Sprint and typically lasts for two hours for a two-week Sprint. Some teams also do it on the last day […]
SCRUM does have its own SDLC, as you can consider every iteration as a mini waterfall 😊. So what does the SCRUM Lifecycle look like? Video: SCRUM Lifecycle The Lifecycle We have to Product Backlog which as we discussed is the list of requirements. The Sprint planning is a meeting where the team decides which […]
There are three primary roles in SCRUM. SCRUM Master can be compared with Project Manager in a regular sense. Except that his approach is not Top Down in terms of authority. He is rather a facilitator and a helping hand for the team. The SCRUM team comprises Developers and QA and any other members who […]
Introduction to SCRUM: One of the most common mistakes that even people who work in Agile do is to intermix the terms SCRUM and Agile. Remember, SCRUM is a framework. A typical software framework is built on the basis of a set of rules and guidelines. And in this case, the guidelines are “Agile Manifesto”. […]
Value Delivery in Agile: We all know by now that Agile focuses on delivering value rather than meeting the plan or complying with the timeline. But how does all of this fare against Waterfall? And what is the impact on the deliverable? Here comes the MVP Video: Value Delivery in Agile MVP (Minimum Viable Product) […]
In February 2001, 17 software development practitioners who named themselves “The Agile Alliance.” gathered at a resort in Utah. They came up with the “Agile Manifesto” which is a brief document built on 4 values and 12 principles for agile software development. It is this manifesto that is the foundation of modern-day agile software development. […]
We will walk through major SDLC models that were popularly used prior to Agile. Keep in mind that I am only going to cover a very few that were the most popular during their times. We will also look at the Evolution of Agile. Till now 60s, 70s, 80s During the 60s, 70s, and 80s […]
