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Imagine it’s the wedding season and this year it’s your turn to face the daunting task of planning a big Indian wedding. There’s a million things to do on the checklist so you try to start your preparation months in advance—booking the venues, finalizing the caterers, shopping for outfits, and deciding on the guestlist early. Why?...
We often get so caught up in meeting project deadlines or resolving urgent customer issues that we lose sight of the core principles of Agile teamwork. It’s not that we forget them entirely—rather, they sit in the back of our minds, overshadowed by immediate priorities. Sometimes, we just need a reminder to bring them back into...
In today’s fast-paced world, flexibility and adaptability are crucial—not just in technology but also in various industries and everyday life, including film production. Bollywood and Hollywood are two of the biggest film industries globally, and their success is not an easy thing for anyone to get —behind the scenes, these...
Introduction In the fast-paced world of software development, the Agile methodology has been a beacon of efficiency, promoting collaboration, adaptability, and swift responses to change. However, a subtle adversary is lurking within teams that can derail the very essence of Agile: the overuse of the question "Why?" Questioning as a...
What comes to mind when we think of “agile ways of working”? Agility, as a mindset and methodology, empowers us to navigate this complex and dynamic landscape with resilience and adaptability. It enables us to embrace change, iterate quickly, and pivot when necessary, all while maintaining a steadfast focus on delivering value and...
The Sprint Retrospective is like a team’s reflection session. Like any other Scrum ceremony, retrospective plays a purposeful role in overall team dynamics and to maximise customer value, but is often neglected. It is taken with a casual attitude of skipping it altogether and moving on to the next sprint which leads to the same...
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...
