As part of a retrospective a few sprints back with one of the team that I work with something interesting happened. Since things are remote we do the Retrospective also remotely and not at the same time and most people just add their update on to a wiki. As I review them I see these words stacked alone in a column in a table. “Many … Continue reading Note-2 Many of the Scrum Rules are being Ignored
Today is Feb 11… This date has a significance in what I do professionally The Agile Manifesto website says“On February 11-13, 2001, at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah, seventeen people met to talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground—and of course, to eat.” 9 years after that day I was introduced to Agile and Scrum.. 1O … Continue reading A Free Agile Scrum Course from Penpositive
At work we all sit in meetings most of the days. We sit in both effective meetings and ineffective meetings. We sit in well planned and totally unplanned chaotic ones. We sit in meetings that have a clear outcome and we sit in those that just act as a primer for another longer one with more people which in turn acts as a primer for … Continue reading How much does your meeting cost you?
I am not sure, but I have a theory. But the question is have companies really dug into this question. Why do some Good people leave a company? I know before we talk about it, we need to probably define what ‘Good’ means. I am sure there are companies out there that think ‘Good’ means having to pay way less than deserved and get a … Continue reading Why do some Good People Leave a company?
I switched from Android to iPhone last year. One of the reasons for doing so was iTunes. I was paying for a family plan as my 18 year old daughter wanted to listen to Rap and my 10 year old son (who dreams a singing career) was growing up with Beyonce and it could have 6 family members. And I wanted to listen something during … Continue reading Podcast Review #1 Agile for Humans
‘Thinking’ or may be the time to ‘THINK’ is getting scarce now. Our little handheld devices take such a lot of our time. Distractions, incomplete work and jumping from one priority to other, all leave people stressed and overworked. I am just putting the question out there for us to ‘THINK’. If we were to take a 15 minutes or half hour every now and … Continue reading Are people stressed and overworked because they don’t have enough time to ‘THINK’?
I wanted to always write about how I got here. I have several years’ experience working in the Hi-Tech space across three continents and 4 countries. It is nothing great looking at how traveled the general Tech Public is now a days. Before I got into Software Delivery I had a stint in Software Services Sales, Professional services, People Management and Product Marketing. I ended … Continue reading How I became a Scrum Master
This is a question I have heard a few times in my career. This question is also from people from various walks of the system. I have had these questions come from developers. Project Managers and Business Analysts and QA Engineers. So I often try helping with a counter question “Why do you need a Certification?” This question often takes me through some interesting learning experience. Here are a … Continue reading What Scrum Certification should I take?
We have all heard or asked this question at least once if not more “How do we write better user stories”. How do we put ‘in words’ what we want to be built. Both the Technical team and the Business team try to get their heads around this one. What does a better user story mean? When people say ‘A better user story’ in most … Continue reading Using Retrospective Meeting For User Story grading
The Agile Principles and Scrum has been around a while now. If you take folks in the tech industry most of them have worked or been connected with a Scrum team sometime in their career. There are also many who will say they followed a Hybrid model and some would say they just follow the ‘Spirit of Agile’. Having more than one recognized certification body in the … Continue reading Embrace Scrum at an Organizational Level
Vinod Narayan 