Reluctance of “The Management” is one of the common challenges faced while trying to drive your organization in Scrum/Agile way. This challenge is quite unique in terms of explaining or justifying the Pros of Scrum vs. Traditional Project Management. The Concerns can be described in 4 different categories: How do we promise newer features to…
Time-boxing is an important aspect of Scrum. By allotting time boxes and by strictly adhering to these, Scrum teams pave a smooth and a systematic way to success. Importance of Time boxing in Scrum can be gauged from the fact that development takes place during Sprints – a Sprint is a time boxed unit of…
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…
There are three roles in scrum: Product Owner, Team, and Scrum Master. Together they are called The Scrum Team. The Product Owner is accountable for optimizing return on investment (ROI) by analysing product aspects, converting these into a priority-wise list so as to decide those things which should be at the top of the list…
Leadership styles vary depending on the organization, the situation, and even the specific individuals and objectives of the Scrum project. Some common leadership styles described in the SBOK are as follows: Servant Leadership—Servant leaders employ listening, empathy, commitment, and insight while sharing power and authority with team members. Servant leaders are stewards who achieve results…
Scrum developers, also referred to as the development team or Scrum team, are responsible for developing the product and they possess all the essential skills required to carry out the work of the project. They have a high level of collaboration to maximize productivity, so that minimal coordination is required to get things done. To…
A Product Owner’s role is one of three core roles in Scrum. Together with a Scrum Master and the development team, a Product Owner can be considered one of three legs that make a tripod. A good Product Owner is crucial to the success of a Scrum project. The Product Owner plays a crucial role by…
The objective of the Scrum Team members, the Scrum Master should be to minimize the risk involved in attaining the project objectives if not to remove it completely. Therefore, the Scrum Teams and the Scrum Master should spend their time to attempt to identify the potential risks that impact the project. This can be achieved…
Time-boxing is a technique to limit the time spent to accomplish a task. A fixed amount of time is allocated to complete each process and activity in a scrum project. After the allocated time is over the task or goal is either accomplished or incomplete, but the time cannot be extended. Why Time-boxing? Time-boxing ensures…
