How Agile Clinic can be an effective forum to address team challenges Recently we organized Agile clinic in our organization. The idea behind the Agile Clinic to provide a platform to teams, scrum masters, product owners and leaders to discuss their challenges/concerns and get some solutions. I had experience of Agile Clinic in my last organization. It was more of bridge call…

How scrum values like Commitment, focus, openness, Respect and Courage helps team to deliver and become high performing Agile is based on 12 principles and 4 manifesto items. The very popular framework of Agile, Scrum is based on 5 core values, i.e., Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect and Courage. These values help in implementing empiricism at scrum events. These values encourage team members to practice agile and get benefit…

How empirical Scrum pillars are important and being implemented through Scrum Events Whenever we talk about Agile frameworks, Scrum comes as a prominent framework practiced in software and other industries. As per 15th Annual State Of Agile Report 2021, Scrum is used 66% across industries/teams. Agile and Scrum is based on empiricism and lean thinking. Scrum has 3 pillars i.e., Transparency, Inspection…

Here we will discuss Product Owner Key Roles and Responsibilities in various Scrum Events. As per Scrum Guide, Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team. PO is accountable for effective Product Backlog management. He/She is an important key…

How BRP helps you to make your delivery smoother and better ‘Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.’ Same goes with planning in Agile. Usually in software delivery, we do different type of planning. Like annual planning, release planning/quarterly planning/PI planning and finally sprint planning. Though agile is all about…

How Read, Write, Speak and Listen help you to master any language ? Coach — What do you want to discuss today? Coachee — I am trying to change my job. I have around 10+ years industry experience. I have been trying for job change since last few months but…

As part of agile transformation of teams/business units, you do lot of things as Agile Coach or Scrum Master, start lot of initiatives, start lot of new practices, and make sure that Agile is being understood and implemented successfully. After few months of time you start seeing results of these…

Recently I was having a discussion with a SM and he asked me what would be the career path for a SM to become Agile Coach. This was not the first time I heard this question. Usually for a Scrum Master, this looks a natural aspiration. But what is the…

There are 5 ceremonies which usually scrum teams have in sprint cadence. Namely Sprint Planning, Daily Stand up, Sprint Review, Retrospective and Backlog Refinement. All these ceremonies have some purpose and outcome. Backlog Refinement may happen more than once in the sprint duration. It depends on the team and PO…