by Amit Kulkarni | Dec 2, 2015 | Agile Scrum
What is a Timebox? Scrum relies heavily on the concept of Timebox. Timebox is setting a fixed time limit to any activity and letting other characteristics such as Scope vary. A time box could be A Meeting A Sprint A Test activity Development Activity Or Practically...
by Amit Kulkarni | Dec 2, 2015 | Agile Scrum
Is Planning required in Scrum? Scrum infact advocates planning. However, the plan does not need to be a humungous up-front plan. Progressively Elaborate the planning in Scrum Plan at multiple levels (strategic, release, iteration daily etc) creating appropriate detail...
by Amit Kulkarni | Dec 2, 2015 | Agile Scrum
What is a Sprint retrospective? The Sprint Retrospective is the event in Agile which brings in the iterative, inspective and adaptive nature into picture. The team reflects upon the previous timebox with a view to learn some lessons, adjust the behavior or environment...
by Amit Kulkarni | Nov 30, 2015 | Agile Scrum
Why do we need to split user stories? Writing User Stories is an art. It needs to be clear to the team what is required and at the same time let the team decide the implantation details by innovating. The key to writing good User Stories are as follows The User...
by Amit Kulkarni | Nov 15, 2015 | Agile Scrum
Best Practices on handling Daily Scrum Using the 3 questions effectively: The Product Owner and Scrum Master should highlight the importance of the three questions in front of the team members so they understand their purpose. Team members should communicate...
by Amit Kulkarni | Nov 2, 2015 | Agile Scrum
Best Practices around handling Sprint Review Meeting Communicate effectively: Team members who are most able to communicate effectively with the team, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and stakeholders should present, so that they can represent the team in front of the...
by Amit Kulkarni | Oct 11, 2015 | Agile Scrum
What is a Persona? Personas are highly detailed fictional characters, representative of the majority of users and of other stakeholders who may not directly use the end product. Personas are created to identify the needs of the target user base. Creating specific...
by Amit Kulkarni | Sep 27, 2015 | Lean
What is Muda, Muri, Mura? One of the key ways in which “Agility” can be achieved is by reducing variations and addressing elements which reduces productivity. There are fundamentally 3 types of variations that can be distinguished Muda : Waste, Non-Value...
by Amit Kulkarni | Sep 6, 2015 | Lean
What is DMAIC? The Lean-Six-Sigma projects follow the DMAIC methodology. DMAIC is an abbreviation for DEFINE, MEASURE, ANALYSE, IMPROVE and CONTROL. DMIAC is a data-driven improvement initiative used for improving, optimising and stabilizing business processes and...
by Amit Kulkarni | Sep 6, 2015 | Lean
Why Lean-Six-Sigma go hand-in-hand? The Key principles of Lean are Value – Define what is of value to the customer Eliminate Waste – Identify the Value Stream and eliminate what is of no value to end customer Flow – Create a constant Flow Pull...
