To understand what are the anti-patterns for a Product Owner, one must first understand who is a Product Owner. In a nutshell a Product Owner is a visionary, accountable for the product. According to a survey done by Forrester research, Read more…
Scrum framework defines three Roles, the Product Owner, the Development Team and the Scrum Master. In this post I will explain who a Product Owner is. So who is this Product Owner? Product owner more often than not is the Read more…
Scrum, to me is the most precise manifestation of Agile values and principles. With this 12 part series I want to share my understanding about it. I believe this would help someone trying to get his feet wet while implementing Read more…
A “whatsapp” group discussion triggered this post and I was amazed to see that most people who are new to Scrum often find it difficult to distinguish between “Acceptance Criteria” and “Definition of Done”. Here’s my attempt to bring out the Read more…
Software fraternity is abuzz with a word “Agile” for over a decade now. Every team is becoming an Agile team. But, how many of us do really understand what Agile or agility is? Recently finished reading “Software in 30 days” Read more…
Every one who has ever worked with Scrum knows that it is based on empirical process control theory i.e. empiricism. Empiricism, itself stands on three key pillars – Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation. But what would tell us that we are Read more…
In the Scrum framework, Scrum Master is an important role. There are so many different services that the Scrum Master has to provide to the team, PO and the organisation itself. This person has to be a coach, a trainer, Read more…
Has it ever occurred to you, why agile way of software development is gaining popularity? Why suddenly the traditional way of development is not good enough? I too thought about the same. I found the answers in the manifesto for Read more…
Developers, can be best describe as a pack of wolves, not too big not too small just the perfect size where every team member gels well with others; knows what he/she should do and what everyone else is doing. I Read more…