We always talk about disciplined life to be successful in life. We teach our kids also to have good habit and have discipline in life. Discipline is something following some system. These are some set of rules which already tried and tested either by our elders or seniors in some…

How Definition of Ready and Definition of Done help teams to achieve quality deliverables Agile way of working is having two important popular concepts . These two concepts are Definition of Ready(DoR) and Definition of Done(DoD). You would often hear these terms used by teams. These concepts quality product and make sure that team’s delivery is aligned with sprint goal and product goal. These…

An important scaled event of Scrum@Scale to help teams in resolving impediments What is SoS - As per the Scrum At Scale® Guide, Scrum of Scrums is a team of teams. This team operates at one level up from scrum teams. As part of scrum master roles and responsibilities, group of scrum masters meet and run two important scaled events. These events are Scaled Daily Scrum…

How Yesterday’s Whether gives better idea to plan your future sprints Today I am going to talk about Yesterday’ Whether. So, what is Yesterday’s Whether. Why we are talking about it in agile or scrum. It is a way to predict today’s whether based on yesterday’s whether. So, mostly 70% of the time, it would remain the same as it was…

How to handle code review dependencies in scrum teams PO — Hello, how are you doing today? SM — I am good, Thank you. How about you? PO — I am also good, wanted to discuss few observations regarding team. SM — Yes, please go ahead. PO — Last few sprints I have been seeing that team is not…

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…