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Scrum has been one of the most implemented frameworks in Agile Methodologies. Due to Covid most of the operations in Scrum are done by distributed teams remotely. One of the highlights of using Scrum practices is that a particular product could be developed by Developers from any time zone of the world. As every day […]
The pandemic has been a great burden for every citizen of the country. Not only one country is affected because of the pandemic but first-world countries like the United States of America and the United Kingdom are also affected. Despite having the best medical facilities, they have failed to keep the pandemic under their control. […]
WIP limits improve throughput and reduce the amount of work “nearly done”, by forcing the team to focus on a smaller set of tasks. At a fundamental level, WIP limits encourage a culture of “done.” More important, WIP limits make blockers and bottlenecks visible. Teams can swarm around blocking issues to get them understood, implemented, […]
When developing a server-side application you can start it with a modular hexagonal or layered architecture which consists of different types of components: Presentation — responsible for handling HTTP requests and responding with either HTML or JSON/XML (for web services APIs). Business logic — the application’s business logic. Database access — data access objects responsible […]
As Scrum Masters, we are used to dealing with an ever-changing, complex environment. How can Scrum Masters, in the current day and age, continue to do their job more effectively? One of the key strengths of an agile approach is the ability to quickly shift gear to refocus on new and emerging priorities. In order […]
Managerial favouritism at work tends to be one of those things that is rarely recognised, acknowledged or talked about, unless you happen to be an employee who experiences it. One of the reasons why the issue is so seldom proactively addressed at the leadership level is that such behaviour is often unconcious so managers either […]
We often see, specifically the new on-boarders of Scrum, trying to figure out the difference between Scrum & SAFe. I will try to explain this difference here in a very simple, lucid & concise way, Reason – I want it easy for the new boarders to grasp & not many of us like reading very […]
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing unbiased, practical information about application security. The OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks was updated in 2017 to provide guidance to developers and security professionals on the most critical vulnerabilities that are commonly found in web applications, which are also […]
As designers, we need to break from our language of users and consumers to truly servepeople. Illustration byShaoFujita In the last ten years, with the development and popularisation of Design Thinking, in wider business context we fully adopted the term user experience (It was Donald Norman, a user experience architect, who coined the term and […]
We see ScrumMasters fail very often while supporting agile teams in their agile transformations. Based on stories of more than one hundred of ScrumMasters we think that following 10 ScrumMasters failures are the top most important for agile teams. 1. Because of Agile People do not care about Agile or Scrum. They want a purpose, […]