Analyze your social intercourse
Few Years back, I was in a 3-day course on agile coaching where the trainer mentioned about the work of Dr. Eric Berne on Transactional Analysis. The discussion lasted for not more than 5-minutes, but it got my interest as…
The Art of Story Writing in Agile
This post we explore story writing as an art, we refrain ourselves from re-inventing the wheel, instead we use the existing inventions, innovations and tools created by experts to arrange our thoughts to enable us to write good user stories….
THE USUAL DILEMMA, SCRUM OR KANBAN
Many teams and agile coaches experience a dilemma when they are consulted with a question of choosing between Scrum and Kanban. Between Scrum and Kanban (or even Scrumban) there is nothing like one is better than the other, each brings…
Documentation in Agile Teams
One of the value statements mentioned in Agile manifesto is as follows Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation. During my interaction with different teams of varied experience level in agile, I observed that teams tend to interpret this statement as Working…
Agile & Regulatory Requirements
Financial regulations proposed in the industry have a fixed set of rules, conditions and fixed timelines. Regulatory requirements are those IT product requirements that arise out of these Financial Regulations and such Regulatory Requirements have a Fixed Scope and Fixed Time. When…
Continuous Deployment, Cloud and Node.js
The goal of this post is to introduce you to continuous deployment and demonstrate the usage of node.js and cloud infrastructure. Let’s tackle the first Big word in the title of this post “Continuous Deployment”, the simplest understanding of this…
Debunking Myths about Agile terms
I thought of finally taking it to my blog to explain the ideas about certain terms in simplest possible language after getting introduced to drastically different explanations about the same terms in recent times. Cross-Functional Teams A team that has the…
GUI Automation With Gherkin and Specflow
When I first got introduced to Gherkin language for writing Acceptance Test Criteria’s, I liked the way it was written as from a Developers/testers point of view this was finite and if written properly can be very close to something…
SQL Coding Standards and Automation
Most technology teams use a classic SQL Coding Standards document which acts as a holy book for every developer within the team. When joining a new team, most times the developers are given a web link that points to a…
Scrum Monitor
Scrum Monitor is an individual who pretends to be the #scrum master for a team but is only monitoring the scrum meetings involving only the development team. – Rakesh
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