Scrum Master Effectiveness – Indian Context – Part 3
This is the Part 3 and last post of this series. Problem #3: Scrum Masters are not well trained The problem statement is that the Scrum Masters don’t have enough …
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Scrum Master Effectiveness – Indian Context – Part 2
This is part 2 of the series. Read “Part 1” for the context. Problem #2: Scrum Masters are not empowered to make decisions The problem statement is that the Scrum …
Scrum Master Effectiveness – Indian Context – Part 1
Recently I facilitated a meet-up through our local user group, Agile Hyderabad. We had about 60 people attended from 24 different organizations. The group identified top 3 reasons to why …
An Estimation Experiment
Estimating work (stories) probably is the hardest part in software development. Every team I have seen seemed to struggle with it. Lately, there is lot of talk about #NoEstimates. I …
Whose job is it anyway ?
Teams those newly started with scrum get into the role dilemma of who should do what. This is pretty common since their roles in earlier way of working probably are …
Do you write your stories right?
By now, I hope most of the people who practice agile knows what a user story is. I observed in lot of teams that either they don’t write user stories …
Game – Test small, test often
This is a game to demonstrate Testing small and Testing often is more affective. Take any building blocks. I used Jenga wooden blocks. I chose 36 Jenga blocks and numbered …
Test First Development is like driving a car with GPS
I had this funny thought that what if you have a GPS that tells you that you made a wrong turn only after you made a turn (I know no …
Try first.. then test
Testers who are new to agile software development often struggle to find a way to test the code in smaller pieces. This is mainly because they are trained to test …
Make Your Tele-team Work
Here is the article I co-authored with Lisa Crispin. http://www.stickyminds.com/BetterSoftware/magazine.asp?fn=cifea