Category
Sort By
Having interacted with a lot of people across organizations, projects, and domains, there is a common misconception that floats - We are doing Agile, when what they actually mean is we are doing Scrum (following scrum methodology). Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive...
What is a Sprint As described in the Scrum Guide, Sprints are the heartbeat of Scrum, where ideas are turned into value. They are fixed length events of one month or less to create consistency. A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint. As a best practice, Sprint should include: Sprint...
What is a Product Backlog? Product backlog consists of desired product functionalities that provide a centralized and shared understanding of what to build and the order in which to build it. Consider it as a medium of creating transparency and roadmap across the board. The Product Backlog contains Product Backlog Items or PBIs which...
Let's first understand what is a Sprint Retrospective. Sprint Retrospective is one of the agile ceremonies that is conducted on the last day of the sprint and is focused on examining the performance and improvement areas more at a process level. If you are following sprints of longer duration say of a month, try to split the sprint...
We keep hearing the word Agile quite frequently in the industry. Every project wants to be on Agile and the thought is that as soon as you start implementing Agile frameworks, there would be some kind of magic that would accelerate delivery, reduce client escalations and the team would be happy. Doing Agile You have implemented Agile...
Quality Assurance in Software Development is not like testing the product by covering the business requirements but is like what QA process you are implementing and is it generating the ROI. Nowadays in the software industry, the client is always looking for frequent and iterative deployments. If you are a QA person then you are expected...
Estimation Experienced project managers know the first question clients ask on any new project is “How much?” followed closely by “How soon?” Whenever the subject of agile project management is discussed, it’s inevitable that one question will be asked: “How do you provide the client or sponsors with an estimate when you have...
Can you adopt Agile in challenging delivery projects? Say, where customers are impatient with their timeline. The answer is YES. Challenges Let us first look at the challenges a typical Project Manager / Project Lead face in such engagements: Productivity Client challenges (Disagreement on delivery dates) Change management /...
Companies globally are expanding multiple efforts to pursue digital transformation and modernize their existing infrastructure. Cloud is a key enabler for successful digital transformation. Cloud reduces the total cost of ownership and offers high flexibility along with improved collaboration. Both large-scale enterprises and SMEs are...
DevOps automation has become an integral part of large-scale digital transformation projects. Companies have realized that automating their delivery pipelines will not only shorten the release cycle but also help in bringing products faster to market. DevOps has broken the traditional silos between the Dev and Ops team and...
We won't be entirely wrong if we stated that the Agile is now becoming the defacto. Several organizations have adopted Agile as a part of their development culture after its advantages were widely known. Even though, Agile has found many takers there may be a few challenges when it comes to taking this process up in reality. Let us...
Digitally evolving companies practicing DevOps are constantly eager to leverage containers in optimizing their IT infrastructure via container orchestration. New York-based 451 Research estimates that the application container market will grow from $762m in 2016 to $2.7bn by 2020 according to their Cloud-Enabling Technologies Market...
