Project Management

Filmmaking- An Agile Playground

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 industries are surprisingly Agile. From […]

Sameer Bansal
Sameer Bansal
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Project Management

How excessive use of ‘Why’ Hurts Productivity and Team Integrity

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 Double-Edged Sword Asking “Why?” can […]

Project Management

Agile framework for Gen AI based applications

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 driving meaningful […]

Project Management

Sprint Retrospective: The Team’s Growth Session

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 […]

Agile

Breaking the Myths – Scrum equals Agile?

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 solutions for complex […]

Agile

Sprint Zero & Why you should NOT refer to it

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 […]

Agile

Myth: The Product Owner Exclusively Maintains the Product Backlog

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 usually […]

Agile

Why you should not include Stakeholders in the Sprint Retrospective

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 […]

Agile

Doing Agile vs Being Agile

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 […]

Divik Thareja
Divik Thareja
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