Are dual roles in Scrum recommended?
Dual roles in Scrum are generally not recommended because Scrum emphasizes clear role definitions and accountabilities to ensure transparency, accountability, and effective collaboration. The primary roles in Scrum are the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Developers (a group of cross functional people), each with distinct responsibilities that contribute to the success of the Scrum team. […]
How performance appraisals will be done in Scrum?
In Scrum, performance appraisal is generally handled differently than in traditional environments. Since Scrum is team-oriented and emphasizes collaboration, individual performance appraisals are often aligned with team objectives and contributions rather than individual metrics alone. Here’s how performance appraisal can be approached in Scrum: 1. Focus on Team Performance Collective Goals: Scrum emphasizes the success […]
What defines a self-organizing and Cross-functional team in Agile and Scrum?
In Agile and Scrum, self-organizing and cross-functional teams are fundamental concepts that significantly contribute to the effectiveness and success of projects and products. Here’s a detailed breakdown of each: Self-Organizing Teams Definition: Self-organizing teams are empowered to make their own decisions about how to accomplish their work, without needing direct oversight from management. They take […]
How do we balance between demanding absolute time estimation requests from business & relative estimation followed in Scrum
Scrum is an empirical approach which is based on an experimental way of execution through iterative and incremental nature. Scrum is designed to solve “Complex” problems where unknown is more than known. Balancing between the business’s demand for absolute time estimations and the relative estimation approach followed in Scrum can be challenging but is achievable […]
How to make Sprint Planning effective?
Sprint Planning is very crucial in order to make the Sprint work clear, confident and achievable. Improving Sprint Planning in a Scrum team involves several key strategies to ensure the team is prepared, the objectives are clear, and the process is efficient. Here are some best practices to enhance Sprint Planning: 1. Preparation Before the […]
Technical Product Owner Vs Product Owner
While Scrum does not explicitly mention Technical Product Owner, in some organizations you come across the role “Technical Product Owner”. This article helps to understand the differences, key focus areas of the Product Owner and Technical Product Owner. Product Owner (PO): Customer-centric focus: The PO represents the voice of the customer and stakeholders. They are […]
How to influence without command and control?
Influencing people using power and authority is common and easy. It may work well in a hierarchy based team structure, but the results will be short term and temporary. However, in a team based work culture such as Scrum, there is no hierarchy within the team. So everyone is equal in a team and no […]
How to apply iterative and incremental approach for each PBI in a Sprint?
In the Traditional way of Software development, the work gets executed in sequential manner such that the programmer does the programming and hands it over to the tester for testing and so on. In Agile and Scrum, it is a different approach that introduces concurrent engineering. Teams work in overlapping mode to get the work […]
Technical Debt and consequences
Technical debt is a metaphor used in software development to describe the consequences of choosing a suboptimal or imperfect solution. The Technical Debt usually in the form of code or system design, architecture to meet immediate needs rather than following a well-architected, sustainable long term approach. The term was coined by Ward Cunningham, one of […]
MVP Vs MMF vs MMR
MMF, MVP, and MMR are terms commonly used in the context of software product development, particularly in agile methods like Scrum. People use these concepts synonymously but they are not the same. This article helps you to understand the key differences of MMF, MMR and MVP. MMF (Minimally Marketable Feature): An MMF is about a […]