The answer to the nagging question as to whether ITIL best practices and Agile can be used together is a big YES! Agile’s enhanced and rapid development benefits ITIL as this provides an opportunity for needing a well-structured framework and established rules for governance. Providing the focus of the improvement process on the necessary stakeholders…
Most organisations follow either the Waterfall or the Agile/Scrum methodology and considered to be recognized approach for development. This being said, there are difficulties when these two methodologies are combined. In the Waterfall development methodology, everyone involved in the project are gathered together in the initial stage of the process. This initial stage of design…
As per Scrum, changes are not allowed during a Sprint. So during the Conduct Release Planning process, the length of the Sprint will be impacted by the frequency of expected changes. Generally the Length of a Sprint may be set to be longer, 4 to 6 weeks if project requirements are generally stable and major…
In addition to providing mentoring to the pilot team during the project, you also need to prepare the team in other ways. You need to train the pilot team on agile practices and principles, and provide a method for feedback during the pilot. Ensure everyone is trained on agile The untrained pilot-team members go through…
The Ideal Daily Scrum The Scrum Master enables the Daily Scrum meeting. His work is to gather the team and Product Owner together, and derive from each team member three pieces of information: • Tasks done since previous Daily Scrum • Tasks planned to be done before the next Daily Scrum • What are the…
A Scrum Master is an organizer for the Scrum team who ensures that Scrum team follows the practices of Scrum. A good Scrum Master also coaches and guides the team to work in the best possible way. The Scrum Master’s role is more difficult than that of a typical project manager. A formal Scrum master…
Out of several estimation techniques involved in Scrum, few are noted below. Wideband Delphi Relative sizing / Story Points Affinity Estimation Estimate Range Wideband Delphi Wideband Delphi is a group-based estimation technique for determining how much work is involved and how long it will take to complete. Individuals within a team anonymously provide estimation for…
Risk Prioritization Scrum allows for quick identification and assessment of risks. Identified Risks are taken into account when creating a Prioritized Product Backlog during the Create Prioritized Product Backlog process, or when we update the Prioritized Product Backlog during the Groom Prioritized Product Backlog process—so a Prioritized Product Backlog could also be referred to as…
Introduction: In Agile Scenario, definition of done (DoD) is very popular, but here we will also look at another important definition related to User Stories: definition of Ready (DoR). These two definitions form the basis of Sprint Principle: “Never pull anything into a Sprint that is not Ready. And never let anything out of the…
Sprint Retrospective is a meeting convened by the Scrum Master in which the team talks about the previous sprint and decided on how to make the next sprint productive. This meeting differs from a Sprint Review meeting. In Sprint review meeting the team looks into what the team is currently working on whereas the Retrospective…
