by Snehamayee | Jan 2, 2021 | Scrum Myths and Antipatterns
What is an antipattern? – An idea which seems good but has more negatives than positives. Click here to read the definition of Anti-Pattern. Why do people feel that Hardening Sprint seems a good idea? Scrum Teams are under constant pressure to deliver features....
by Amit Kulkarni | Jan 1, 2021 | Agile Scrum
Most of us wanted 2020 to go away as soon as possible. 2020 will be remembered as an year of catastrophe. We all got affected in some way or the others. Some of us lost our friends, neighbors, family members, acquaintances… Someone whom we knew was...
by Snehamayee | Dec 30, 2020 | Scrum Myths and Antipatterns
It is a common mis-conception that Scrum is only useful for small projects. The real fact is that Scrum is used for solving complex problems. Complex problem is a problem where there are “unknowns” about requirements or the solution. For solving complex problems, the...
by Snehamayee | Dec 22, 2020 | Scrum Myths and Antipatterns
Common Misconceptions and negative implications Some teams treat the Sprint Backlog as just a smaller version of the bigger plan (Product Backlog) and start creating baselined Sprint Backlogs for multiple future Sprints. The negative implication of this practice is...
by Snehamayee | Dec 18, 2020 | Scrum Myths and Antipatterns
A generally used process, structure of pattern of action that initially appears to give effective response to a problem, however it turns out to give more bad response than good. Wikipedia Anti patterns are generally acceptable solutions to common problems where the...
by Archana Shinde | Dec 15, 2020 | DevOps
Agile Teams use DevOps to implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery which helps them to launch their products at a faster rate into the market. The main reason DevOps is adopted are Predictability, Maintainability, Time to market, Quality Improvement...
by Snehamayee | Dec 8, 2020 | Scrum Myths and Antipatterns
Common Misconceptions and negative implications Most teams implement Sprint Planning as three parts – Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. The Product Owner comes in part 1 and 2, helps with setup of the Sprint Goal (WHY) selection of functionality (WHAT) and then the...
by Snehamayee | Nov 18, 2020 | Agile Scrum
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 article I have articulated my understanding and...
by Archana Shinde | Nov 10, 2020 | 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 simple. When you have five or ten...
by Snehamayee | Nov 3, 2020 | Scrum Myths and Antipatterns
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 is an INCORRECT understanding of the Sprint Review. Sprint Review...
