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Deliverables from scrum projects, which are potentially shippable, are also referred to as ‘Done’. instituting an honest, collective understanding of ‘Done’ can protect teams and companies from innumerable hours of refactoring, working on tasks which later turn out to be useless, vague communication, and extra work one did not expect to be ‘Done’. Teams struggled…
The IT domain is very dynamic in nature. Trends and scenarios change within a matter of months. Your skill-set might be in high demand right now but it may become obsolete in a few months down the line. Hence IT professionals need to undergo certification programs to keep their skills abreast with the market. There…
Responsibilities of a Product Owner include determining the project’s initial overall requirements and kicking off project activities; this may involve interaction with the Program Product Owner and the Portfolio Product Owner to ensure that the project aligns with direction provided by senior management. He represents user(s) of the product or service with a thorough understanding…
Introducing the known requirements to the feasibility team: If you’re working on an agile project, one with volatile requirements or a tight deadline, you won’t have deep requirements when you begin the Feasibility phase. A request or idea has been approved for a feasibility investigation, and no one has documented detailed requirements to this point.…
Do you really use Scrum, do you follow Scrum as it is or you use Scrum, but you do a few things differently? This is a new term which has made its entry in the past few years. If you ask anyone if they have ever used scrum for their organization or project. You will…
Well, to start off with, there are multiple levels in the Scrum certification and quite often, people do have questions regarding where to start with or how to start with. So today we will discuss regarding the same. The first in the list is Scrum Developer Certified which is an entry level certification for Scrum…
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…
AGILE PROJECT FEASIBILITY Feasibility: The big picture In this chapter we will be discussing how feasibility fits into the overall agile lifecycle. The agile process is represented by five virtual phases. We use the term virtual because in reality you may perform feasibility, planning, development, or adapting at any point in an agile project. The…
Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland elaborated on the Scrum concept and its applicability to software development in a presentation at the Object-Oriented Programming Systems Languages & Applications (OOPSLA) conference held in 1995 in Austin, Texas. Since then, several Scrum practitioners, experts and authors have continued to refine the Scrum conceptualization and methodology. In recent years,…
The key stakeholder of Scrum Projects is the Product Owner One integral responsibility of the Product Owner is to convey the importance and significance of the Scrum Project to the Scrum Team. This is the key for the success of any Agile Project through the use of Product Backlog. Now let us look at some…
