Scrum Guide 2020 – What’s New? Excitement is in air. The new scrum guide is out. Like always there is a great curiosity among agile enthusiasts to see how the guide to scrum is evolving. This article attempts to capture this very aspect. Here, in this...
Configuration Management in DevOps
Configuration Management in DevOps Configuration management is all about trying to ensure that the files and software you are expecting to be on a machine are present, configured correctly, and working as intended. When you have only a single machine this is fairly...
Myth about Sprint Review being a sign-off event or a demo forum
Myth about Sprint Review being a sign-off event or a demo forum Common Misconceptions and negative implications Sprint Review is thought to be a “sign-off event by the Product Owner” or “a demo forum by developers” by most organizations. This...
Busting Myths around Scrum
Busting Myths around Scrum Scrum is a framework for solving complex adaptive problems. Scrum does not describe any tools, techniques and best-practices. Most people misunderstand Scrum and make assumptions on Scrum. The set of articles in this section are intended to...
Myth about baselining the Sprint Lengths at the start of the project and never changing it
Myth about finalizing the Sprint Lengths at the start of the project and never changing it Common Misconceptions and negative implications Most organizations and Agile experts implement Sprint Length as a fixed length baselined at the time of writing a SoW or a...
Myth about Definition of Done being baselined before project starts
Myth about Definition of Done being baselined before project starts Common Misconceptions and negative implications Definition of Done is directly compared with Quality Criteria which was used in waterfall. Because of this teams tend to baseline the definition of done...
Myth about Scrum Master being a renamed Project Manager role
Myth about Scrum Master being a renamed Project Manager role Common Misconceptions and negative implications Organizations implement Scrum Master role by renaming all their Project Managers as Scrum Masters just because they want to do Scrum or try Scrum. Scrum Master...
Myth about Sprint Backlog being a commitment
Myth about Sprint Backlog being a commitment Common Misconceptions and negative implications Most leadership and product owners feel that Developers has to commit to a scope during the Sprint Planning. That is, most leadership try to implement the concept of “baseline...
Myth about Daily Scrum being a status meeting
Myth about Daily Scrum being a status meeting Common Misconceptions and Negative implications Most teams conduct Daily scrum as a status meeting. When this happens, following negative implications result Developers start thinking that this is Scrum Master’s forum...
Utility and Warranty in ITIL4
Utility and Warranty in ITIL4 What is Utility and Warranty? It is important to assess a service with consideration to the impact of costs and risks on utility and warranty. This is important to gain a complete picture of the viability of a service. So Let’s look...
