Nowadays Agile is almost on its peak of popularity, and Scrum is on everybody’s tongue. I see Scrum being followed almost everywhere. I even came through videos where kids were using Scrum to manage their tasks. I see small/big projects using Scrum to deliver quick and superior products. I see questions and curiosity about Scrum. [...]
You will often find people in Agile teams cribbing about the overload of meetings. Initially I also cribbed. Then, with time I became more “Agile” and then thought “communication is a key feature” of Agile. I tried to attend meetings with interest. However, I always tend to return towards cribbing about “Overload of meetings”. So, [...]
Have you ever been part of/witnessed a team trying desperately to adopt Agile, and the more they tried to adapt it, more hellish their life became ? I have seen agile adoption failures. And what I have learned from that experience is, that the problem was not Agile. The problem was the way, the processes [...]
I have been working in Agile Scrum teams all my career. I have worked in scrum teams sizes of two, three, four, eight, twelve and twenty. I have even worked in geographically distributed teams. It has been quiet an experience to work in teams of these flavor. The team dynamics basically decided the team’s productivity. [...]
Well, agile strictly says no to changing sprint backlog in middle of the sprint. However, I have faced and seen situations where changing sprint backlog looked really logical to me. The customer builds the product for selling. It’s not showcase of a perfectly modularized, architect-ed, unit tested and agile followed product. Its build for creating [...]
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