We normally do not associate companies in the private sector with bureaucracy and reserve that criticism mostly for governments and public sector organizations. But how many times have we waited for a response from a department which never came? How many times have we felt things have taken twice as long as they should have?…
Professionals who want to implement Scrum in their organizations, usually ask – ‘What are the recommended books if we had a team of developers who are usually new to Agile and Scrum?’ That is, there are currently lot of books in the market that target only a specific audience (e.g., a Scrum Master) and do…
While transitioning to Agile, a major mistake that many organizations make is that they are not sure if the organization has the characteristics essential to successfully make this transition. Then once the transition begins, they realise this existing gap and rectifying it at a later stage is extremely difficult. Hence, any organization before adopting Agile…
Throughout a Scrum project, it is very important to ensure that intended benefits are being realized as originally planned. Strong benefit realization planning and appropriate verification techniques are required to confirm that the project deliverables with benefits and value are being created by the Scrum team members. This ensures full utilization of project resources. Prototype…
Probably this is one of the most frequently asked questions in relation to implementation of Scrum and still baffles everyone. The old school of Scrum was very apprehensive about Scrum being used beyond software development. No prize in guessing that the inventors and early followers were from software development background and they never thought of…
