My son is applying for colleges.. Agile at our rescue
My son, Hardhik, is in 12th grade and now is busy applying for colleges in USA. As many of you know, college application process takes lot of time and he has …
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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 …
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 …