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…
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…
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…
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…
In Scrum, each day scrum team gathered for at most 15 minute for quick update of their work status like what they are working on, how much work is completed or remaining and what next after that portion of work along with impediments /roadblocks for the individual’s and for overall team. This meeting helps product…
Code review is one of the most important process in software development process. By reviewing the code level of assurance code works in better way is increased. developer gets early feedback as we say in Agile, ‘Fail Fast’. I prepared this content for the Atlassian User Group’s Meetup (9th AUG Meetup) organised by AUG Kathmandu….
Highlights Sprint Planning Estimation Sprint Goal Team Capacity and Velocity Scrum Meetings – Sprint Planning Previously defined events are used in Scrum to create regularity and to minimize the need for extra meetings. All events are time-boxed events, such that every event has a maximum duration. Sprint Planning is time-boxed to a maximum of eight…