ITIL General Management Practices In ITIL, management practices are defined as “set of organizational resources designed for performing work or accomplishing an objective.”. These Management practices are the core or main component of Service Value System (SVS). In...
What is a Pattern?
What is a Pattern? A particular way in which something is done, is organized, or happens: The pattern of family life has been changing over recent years. A pattern is beginning to emerge from our analysis of the accident data. In this type of mental illness, the usual...
Hardening Sprint – An Anti Pattern
Hardening Sprint – An Anti Pattern 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...
2020 taught us to be Agile
2020 taught us to be Agile 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...
Myth about Scrum only being useful for small projects
Myth about Scrum only being useful for small projects 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...
Myth about creating multiple Sprint Backlogs before first sprint starts
Myth about creating multiple Sprint Backlogs before first sprint starts 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...
What is an Antipattern?
What is an Antipattern? 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...
DevOps End of Service / Product Life
DevOps End of Service / Product Life 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,...
Myth about Sprint Planning consisting of three parts Part1, Part2, Part3 vs Topic1, Topic2, Topic3
Myth about Sprint Planning consisting of three parts Part1, Part2, Part3 vs Topic1, Topic2, Topic3 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,...
Scrum Guide 2020 – What’s New?
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...