Advance Agility

  Agile is the most common and continuously increasing popular system due to the fast and quick response they provide to customer demand and changing market conditions. This shift is mostly driven by agile teams that are multidisciplinary and self-organized. Autonomous agile teams have better decision-making and freedom compared to traditional teams which helps them easy to achieve the set goals. In agile teams, every team member knows their responsibility and is accountable for their work done. This makes agile teams an important part of agile . Agile teams are like blood in our bodies. Generally, many agile organizations have many such teams but they are always small teams that make the functioning of the team easy. But with changing and fast pacing business world the agile teams are also expected to have a faster pace that will make them more agile . With this agility, agile teams are also required to maintain stability and dynamism. Achieving these four practices is...

  “You can’t jump from little things to big things It just takes time and patience.” - Nadia Comaneci Implementing agile principles, requirements, and practices is an important step. Agile language and working are different from the traditional way of working. The organisations have to eliminate many requirements, specifications, designs, sign-off, and stage gated governance model etcetera, which consists of lots of challenges in the process. As no big things come instantly, implementing agile and all these processes also take some time. The fully committed will even take at least six months to complete the basic steps and practices of implementation. Further, it will take some time to show its benefits and advantages but even more, time to have ultimate results to acquire it requires to change various things and mainly including our virtual formal requirement management practices. The main issue in doing so is that our safety nets of artefacts and milestones for issues occurr...

  Organizations are continuously in competition to gain advantages by improving values driven by their software development. Organizations take advantage of opportunities, and effective responses, and challenge deliberately to each other while controlling risks, and optimizing investment returns. To obtain all these organizations turn towards agile processes like scrum taking initiative to become lean. Scrum masters in such situations play a major role. Scrum masters are always considered the true leaders who serve as scrum guides. In various articles, we have already discussed the importance and responsibilities of a scrum master . Scrum masters with their working and is being themselves can be role models that bring so much change in agility by their behaviour instead of only teaching theories to their teams. Today’s discussion is for aspiring scrum masters out there who want to influence change in the workplace with their behaviour rather than only with theories. “ Behavi...

  “ Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small .” - Donald Rumsfeld When it comes to agile we always try to be precise and start from the very basic which is a mindset change and culture. Because to be faster and achieve quality, we need to be sure that we are on the right track not mistaking any concept and using it wrongly. Because leading a wrong path will bring a mess in between the path where it will cause frustration, high cost, and waste of time which is not agile ever approves. In agile the most popular concepts and also the newest on-boarders are confused with scrum and SAFe . Many consider scrum and SAFe as one in every aspect as SAFe itself includes scrum . Even though scrum and SAFe both function under agile values and principles but still there is some small difference between them. While applying to agile this difference must be cleared for better understanding and utilization of agile . In agile , scrum is a framework ...

  When an organization decides to transform into agile the next question they face which they feel is challenging is which agile methodology they should transform into. What system of agile will be best for their organization? Being new to agile many feel confused while choosing their methodology as they have doubts about what if after being way ahead of the transformation we learn that we chose the wrong methodology. Many organizations even go with two different methodologies in agile at the same time. The most used agile methodologies are Scrum and kanban , being not fully aware of their benefits, disadvantages, and how and where they work organizations go with the approach where they cannot reap the maximum benefits of agile . In today’s article, we will go through what Kanban and scrum are, what are their benefits, and when and where they should be used to employ their advantages. Kanban and scrum are two different strategies to approach agile development and proje...

  “When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and other builds windmills.”-A Chinese Proverb. The simple answer always to what agile is will be, the capability to respond to change. To remain relevant and survive in the market organizations must be responsive to change. When I observed deeply towards agile processes and systems I come to understand that it is woven from our existence, survival of the fittest. When it comes to the business world survival of the fittest indicates the organizations that can gain maximum outcomes from minimal inputs. As athletes require to maintain their diet, environment, and optimum training for success similarly organizations are also required to maintain the same. As athletes organizations also require us to learn that failure is part of success, I don’t mean that it’s always okay to fail but I intend to say that organizations must take failure for productive experiments and learn from it. Agile and scrum always encourage new ...