Consulting as a function revolves around projects. Consultants work on a variety of projects – sometimes even concurrently. In addition, they invariably have to deliver very high quality deliverables in tight deadlines. When such consulting assignments are not managed well, they invariably results in late nights for consultants, giving rise to numerous stories about how…
Preparing and maintaining the product backlog can be a very productive habit while getting engrossed during an agile project. In an agile setting, whatever the development team was working on each sprint draws the attention of the weekly and daily focus and quickly becomes integrated. Recognize that requirements charge up forecasting in agile In agile,…
Whatever happened to synergy? For quite a while in the 90s and early 2000s, synergy was the buzzword for the paradigm shifts that restructured the leadership landscape. When the dust settled and the hype dissipated, higher degrees of process integration and cross-functionality remained. These two synergistic elements continue to improve organizational profitability and efficiency. However,…
When an organisation is trying to adopt Scrum, this is the biggest question that comes in their mind. Since traditionally the Scrum suggests that the Scrum Teams should ideally be 6-8 Member team, how will this work for humongous projects which have huge team some time in 100’s. This leads to a misconception that Scrum…
A Product Owner must be able to successfully envision a product. Organizations generally carry out market research and other activities, such as planning and analysis, to conceptualize products. A shortcoming of this approach is that organizations assume that customer requirements are predictable and ignores other fluctuating factors. Another approach is to dive head first into…
Every project, irrespective of scale and size, is subjected to risk. Even a smallest of project involves some amount of risk. This is one of the unique characteristics of a project. So, when we work on a project, we do risk management side by side. ‘Risk’ often has a negative connotation and we usually think…
You have been appointed as the Scrum Master for a Scrum team. The project is about to start and you are expected to lead it by using the principles of Scrum methodology which is being widely talked about as one of the most efficient ways of completing projects. You may or may not have…
Relative values are used for story points estimation instead of absolute values. This approach renders it quite simple enough to create these kinds of estimates while facing uncertain situations. With experience and time, Scrum teams will develop the capability to sharpen up their estimates for more precision. They can figure out the number of story…
SCRUM is a considered to be set of guidelines that oversee the growth process of a product, from its design phase to its completion. Scrum is one among several agile methods that practices an iterative and incremental procedure in the course of development of a project. As per SCRUM, a project is divided into what…
SBOK Guide has been developed to create a necessary guide for all practitioners of project management personnel and companies who are interested in implementing Scrum environment for their projects. It’s not just for individuals who are new to scrum but also for practitioners who have been using scrum framework, without a deep knowledge of scrum,…
