Anti-patterns are essentially common ways that projects can fail and we want to avoid them as much possible but the best way to avoid them is to know – what they are? how they arises? and how to fix those? Anti pattern is generally occurring situation in a project and they are of many…
While Scrum and XP were transforming the software development industry, there was another set of ideas derived from the Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma that started to influence software development methods. These ideas around Lean software development forms the foundation of number of Agile methods. Agile and Lean are two popular methodologies in software development industry to deliver faster…
A startup is an early-stage venture that’s in search of a profitable business model and that can be scaled up rapidly as demand for the product / service grows. Another major consideration is company size. The biggest difference between a job at a startup and a job at a bigger, more traditional company is the…
We often struggled with deadlines, between life and the pace of the modern world. These deadlines emerge over our heads and cause our stress levels to rise. Deadlines do have some benefits associated with them. These deadlines ensure that projects remain on schedule. They keep us motivated to complete tasks. They also keep the business growing…
Company Culture Agile transformation implies a culture change and Culture change refers actually to a change of the mindset. We simply cannot change the culture by talking about values, or printing the values together with the company’s vision in big letters at the front door and just by reading that everyday doesn’t change anything until and unless we actually implement changes and make that…
1:1’s or 1-2-1 whatever we call this, these meetings are one of the powerful tools for every manager in an organization. Most of the times one on one started but never continues, that actually waste our time during beginning. These are the types of meetings those need continuations, review and better version of previous 1-1 template….
In IT industry we can see the range of job titles sometimes it is hard to distinguish exactly what people do. However commonly known roles are: Software Engineer, System Analyst, Business Analyst, Product Owner, Technical Support, Network Engineer, Project Manager, Software Tester etc. Out of all these roles, in this article I would like to…
AccomplishmentsCertificate I have completed the course about ‘Learning how to Learn” to improve my learning habit. I have done schooling from government school of Nepal, my Mom used to teach there. Government schools back then (25 years back) were not in very good condition, we used to learn in our national language Nepali. However,…
Self-Organizing Team One of the challenges for leaders and mangers in agile development method is to prepare self-organizing teams. Scrum Masters and agile coaches should be aware of any influence on their teams to focus the creativity and productivity of a self-organizing team. Even the Agile Manifesto includes self-organizing teams as a key principle, saying…
Five core Scrum Values When you hear about scrum, you will obviously hear about certain meetings, roles and values. You might think about the Agile Manifesto, which is the fundamental of scrum. When I was preparing for the Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I), I used to learn things by making fun with shortcuts. We abbreviated…