agile

26 Apr 22

The 6 Rules for Effective Kanban

The 6 Rules for Effective Kanban Toyota Production Systems saw the need for implementation of Kanban within their production systems to create an optimum flow of work and reduce waste in the production line. Over the years, their Kanban application went through improvements and eventually the Six Rules helped improve…

02 Jan 22

Situational Leadership

As the name suggests, situational leadership recognizes that no one leadership style is best suited, a good leader understands the situation and adapts his/her leadership style to the situation. The ability to adapt the leadership style to the situation, ensures that the work gets done. Situational Leadership was developed by…

15 Sep 21

Why do you need Definition of Done in Scrum?

Per Scrum Guide - “The Definition of Done is a formal description of the state of the Increment when it meets the quality measures required for the product”. Having a clear Definition of Done (DoD) ensures transparency within the Scrum Team and also with the customers who are receiving the…

18 Aug 21

Sprint Review versus Sprint Demo

Over the years I have seen sprint reviews turn into sprint demos. The paradigm of demo and review are very different, they each serve different purposes and they each require different levels of team engagement. In this blog we try to understand Sprint Review versus Sprint Demo. What is the…

11 Aug 21

How to overcome resistance to change while leading agile transformation?

If you are somebody who has been coaching agile teams or leaders, it is very likely that you would have run into team members, managers or business customers, who resist movement to agile. Personally I have run into customers who do not want to even hear the word agile. There…

03 Aug 21

12 Agile Myths

While agile continues to steer software development teams towards success, there are many teams out there who are staying away from agile or are running into challenges in adopting agile because of myths they or their leadership or their customers have formed on agile. Here are 12 agile myths that…

27 Jul 21

9 Daily Scrum Anti-Patterns

Daily Scrum is an event for developers to inspect and adapt towards the sprint goal. As the name goes, this event is supposed to happen every day. This is one event which brings the whole team together and helps them collaborate, synchronize their work and take collective ownership of sprint…

26 Jul 21

Top 12 Agile Transformation challenges and strategies to overcome them

Top 12 Agile Transformation challenges and strategies to overcome them Agile transformation of an organisation is influenced by different factors that can hinder the initiative’s success, such as lack agility in agile transformation itself, lack of leadership commitment to change, organisational culture, and lack of understanding of problems and challenges.…

19 Apr 21

Agile Mindset Training – Uncovering better ways of Developing Software

Agile Mindset Training – Uncovering better ways of Developing Software Before doing Agile Mindset training in Pune, first we try to understand What is Agile Mindset? Agile Manifesto starts with a sentence saying – “We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it”.…

14 Apr 21

Adopting Agile in an Organisation for Productivity – Think again

Adopting Agile in an Organisation for Productivity Assumption Managers make while adopting agile Sometimes when organisational leaders & managers think about adopting agile in an Organisation, some managers tend to assume that the objective of moving to agile is to make teams faster and improve their productivity. Agile is about…