by Amit Kulkarni | Mar 24, 2016 | Agile Scrum
The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Developers. How this is done may vary widely across organizations, Scrum Teams, and individuals. The Product Owner is the sole person responsible for managing the Product...
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...
