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...
by Snehamayee | Nov 1, 2020 | Scrum Myths and Antipatterns
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 bust some of these myths...
by Snehamayee | Oct 20, 2020 | Scrum Myths and Antipatterns
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 contract. Recommendations Scrum Guide recommendation is to keep the Sprint Length “Consistent”....
by Snehamayee | Oct 6, 2020 | Scrum Myths and Antipatterns
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 before starting the projectBy baselining the definition of done,...