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Agile Contracting: Discovery, Fixed Budget, Variable Scope
We discussed about committing fixed number of story points and swapping any additional scope with existing backlog in our previous post “Agile for Fixed Bid Projects“. This is a great way to maximize...
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Appraisals in an Agile Company – Part 1
Appraisals! How many of you dread this word? This is the only time in the year that you get to bargain for salary increments, everyone end-up negotiating to their best. Appraisals are closely connected...
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Appraisals in an Agile Company – Part 2
In our last post, we discussed about how to break performance measures into team and individual measures to bring more team behavior orientations into appraisals. Today, let’s talk about addressing...
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Agile Testing is achieving quality in everything
We know “Testing As An Activity” is important, and why we should all test. The old axiom that “Testers Test and Programmers Code” is so outdated now and everyone needs to change. Testers are the...
View ArticleWebinar: How to Deal with Emergencies in a Lean/Scrum Team
Every Agile team has to deal with different emergencies next to their regular work. Every team dream of achieving sustainable pace comes with nightmares of production emergencies/defects, support and...
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Scrum Backlog: Epic, User Story, Acceptance Criteria
Often, I get to hear questions about level of details that need to go in the product backlog stories. How detailed should be the acceptance criteria? or how small the story should be? We all know...
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Lean Product Development: Dealing with Business Emergency
We all know biggest risk in the product development is building a WRONG product. There are numerous examples from history to see why some products did not see light of the day or big success. Recently,...
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Mind the gap: Engineering Teams in 21st century, Management in 20th century
Quite often I get to see engineering teams – upto middle management being new to agile, are ready to give it a try. But they have real problem on hand that is – coaches asking them to: Embrace change...
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Use Planning Board for Product Backlog Grooming
In our earlier post – Improve sprint throughput we had discussed about how important it is to have stories ready for play before team picks it as part of the sprint. In short, if half-cooked stories...
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Streamline Your UAT and DevOps – Kanban Boards
In my earlier post, we discussed using planning boards to improve your backlog planning and eventually to improve your planning flow. Main project workflow remained same. Note: People landing on this...
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