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…
Often, people have a very vague idea of what Agile is and how it is implemented. For many professionals, Agile simply means more freedom, less or no documentation and changing plans as and when desired. This is a very bad interpretation of what Agile actually is, and in fact creates a negative impression due to…
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…
A Scrum Master is an organizer for the Scrum team who ensures that Scrum team follows the practices of Scrum. A good Scrum Master also coaches and guides the team to work in the best possible way. The Scrum Master’s role is more difficult than that of a typical project manager. A formal Scrum master…
