While transitioning to Agile, a major mistake that many organizations make is that they are not sure if the organization has the characteristics essential to successfully make this transition. Then once the transition begins, they realise this existing gap and rectifying it at a later stage is extremely difficult. Hence, any organization before adopting Agile…
In Agile, Quality and Testing teams’ roles and responsibilities often overlap. That is because ideally, matrices are not required in Agile Projects. So, Quality teams are often merged into testing teams for the sake of convenience, though it depends on a lot of factors. Also, as customers are closely involved in providing feedback every sprint,…
Scrum as an Agile methodology is currently most popular in IT development teams. However, that does not mean that it cannot be effectively used in other domains. In fact, as an Agile methodology of managing projects, it can be used wherever people work on projects on a regular basis. It can be used in a…
It is often seen that Agile has been implemented successfully in different projects. But when it comes to Product Management or NPD (New Product Development), many people get sceptical regarding implementation of Agile. Now it has to be understood that Agile is not a methodology which can be used in a cookie cutter way across…
The world is going agile. Are you? In the face of the global economic turbulence, organizations are forced to become nimble and agile so that they can respond to market changes quickly. Over the last few years, many organizations have adopted adaptive project management methods like Agile to increase the efficiency of their project management…
Leadership style vary depending on the organization, the situation, and even the specific individuals and objective of the Scrum project. Some common leadership styles are as follows – Autocratic, Democratic, Laissez-faire, Transactional, Task oriented, Assertive, servant leadership. Autocratic: This kind of leaders maintain strict, close control on followers by keeping close regulation of policy’s. They…
Many mid-level software firms and financial institutions have seen two of the worst crisis in the past decade: dotcom crisis and sub-mortgage crisis. Before the crisis, people were so optimistic that big long term project plans were prepared packaging in as much features as possible, running up to 3-4 years. Interest rates were affordably low,…
In the field of organization behavior, the notion of the high-performing team has been discussed. Many of today’s Customers need rapidly adapting development services. High-performing teams are the key to providing that service. A mature high-performing team is a united unit, not merely a throng of individuals. While such teams usually emerge by chance; a…
The Scrum model recommends that projects advancement occurs through a series of sprints. In tune with an agile procedure, sprints are allotted a fixed period of time which won’t be rarely a month long, most commonly two weeks. Scrum procedure endorses for a complete planning at the start of the sprint, where team members decide…
Even if it’s easier to implement Agile, there are few challenges which make it difficult to implement: Less knowledge: Finding experts who can make others understand Agile better is very rare and hence is the first bottleneck. If there are some experts in your own company, then you can consider yourself very lucky, else it’s…
