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One of the most common adopted agile approaches in industry today is SCRUM, more so for agile software development. In order to adopt the approach, core principles of SCRUM have to be implemented. Various organizations have implemented agile approach including SCRUM. Ten keys that help a company identify changes that have to be implemented for…
Estimation by definition is choosing a value using the best information available. The value needs to take into account the uncertainty involved. Keeping in line with the principle of Self Organization, the Guide to Scrum Body of Knowledge™ recommends the usage of Planning Poker to estimate tasks and other items. The usage of Planning Poker…
In a Scrum project, it is the Scrum Team members who are responsible for delivering the desired product or service and not the Scrum. Hence, we should be careful in forming the Scrum Teams. “The Scrum Team is sometimes referred to as Development Team since they are responsible for developing the product, service or other…
Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland played a key role in elaborating 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. After that time, several Scrum practitioners, experts and authors have continued to improve the Scrum conceptualization…
Scrum is a simple framework which believes in responding quickly to changes in business environment and the ability to respond to changes is one of the reasons that made Scrum popular. The Product Owner is responsible for getting the Product Backlog ready and prioritizing the items in the Product Backlog. The Scrum Master and the…
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…
An Agile coach is consulted by the client primarily for two reasons: They want proactive help, from start to finish, all through the transformation process. The client tried doing it themselves with not-so-successful results in trying to adopt Agile. From time to time there, it is found that there is disparity in what companies interpret…
Sprint Planning Meeting The Sprint Planning Meeting is the discussion held by a Scrum team with the goal of agreeing which task will be executed during a set sprint period. In preparing for the Sprint Planning Meeting the SCRUM Master needs to surround the team with the following artifacts and discussion elements: 1. Product Backlog…
Management guru Peter Drucker once said, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Great leaders have an uncanny ability to motivate people to go that extra mile. Leadership differs from management in that management focuses on controlling and getting things done while leadership focuses on empowering people so that they do…
Project Management Institute’s “PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam Content Outline” organizes the tasks practitioners do when working in Agile environment into six domains. Their exam does not test specifically on the domains, so learning their grouping of tools and techniques and knowledge and skills will not be directly applicable to the language of the test.…
