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Distinguishing Qualities of Scrum Masters

Scrum Masters role is one of widely confused and misunderstood role among three roles in Scrum framework. Different people and organizations have different level of understanding on Scrum Master (SM) role. In many organizations this is either assigned to Project Managers, Technical Leads or Sr. Developers; without thinking about the inherent characteristics required to successfully perform this…

Doing Scrum Is NOT Enough BEING Agile!

“There is no Silver Bullet for Being Agile.”

Project / product development team might be doing scrum religiously by having fixed-length sprints, following ceremonies without fail, have time boxed stand-ups, creating artifacts as prescribed. But these are not enough. A team that focuses too much on Scrum as a process framework rather than intents for which it’s needed to be followed often fails…

Delivering Incremental Consumable Solution

Agile methods help to incrementally deliver software product regularly to end users early and often. But, did we wonder whether the software that is being developed at certain cadence are of real use to the customer and whether the end users would really use the product features released? Or, will they be accepting it and would take out time to bring the released features into actual use for…

Sustainable Pace – A True Measure To Agility

In Agile Software Development, ‘Sustainable Pace’ practice refers to the consistent and sustainable software development through a longer period. This sustainability in development should be maintained continuously until completion of product development with the consistent endeavors to improve the rate of software delivery maintaining the quality output. Originated from the Extreme Programming…

Long Live The Chickens and The Pigs :-)

If you are from Agile world, then you must have heard or read the story of The Chickens and The Pigs. Though, I did not liked this analogical story when I heard this for the first time in one of my Agile Scrum Training. I was not totally convinced by the analogy given, so never used it and have been advocating against it.

What does it means?

The story is told to explain the active participants…

DevOps, Is THE CURRENT BIG Thing In Software Development

In few of the Agile & DevOps forums, I saw community members raised the question – ‘Is DevOps the big thing next in Software Development?’ and few other related posts. While I agree that #DevOps is buzzing around the corner and it is definitely the Big Thing in IT Industry today.  I strongly believe that it is not only The Next Big Thing; rather it’s one The CURRENT BIG THING in IT Industry in…

Four Facets to Agility Are Applicable To #DevOps

In series of posts at Agile Gnostic, I explained about the four facets to agility. These four facets of Agile are…

Values and Principles

Culture & Mindset

Methods & Practices

Tools and Technologies

What I observed is that all these four facets are applicable to DevOps as well. This post introspects these facets from DevOps angle.

But before we move to that, we understand that still there…

Four Facets of Agile – Part 3 (Tools and Technologies)

This is the last post in the series of three posts in which I am writing on my introspection to the facets of agility in Software Development. As seen Agility cannot be achieved just by following the textbook prescribed approach. Following are the four agility facets –

Agile Values and Principles

Agile Mindset

Agile Practices and

Tools and Technologies

In the Part-1of the post, I…