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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
WHAT IS A SPIKE? In agile software development, a spike is a story that cannot be estimated until a development team runs a timeboxed investigation. The output of a spike is an estimate for the original story. CHOOSING TO DO ALL OF YOUR SPIKES IN SPRINT 0 If you implement all of your spikes for […]
Procrastination is one of the biggest killers of productivity. In all of our lives, we have to deal with this simple fact, that we do procrastinate from time to time and we have to at least reduce the amount of time procrastinating if we ever want to achieve our goals. However, in order to stop […]
Hybrid is most popular with publicly funded establishments, as they prefer to stick to the classically linear and sequential (traditional Waterfall) approach of software development that they are used to, rather than to try Agile. Usually it’s hard for them to detach from Waterfall because of their long history with it. The longer an organization […]