Advance Agility

Agile and cloud computing is today's upcoming and widely expanding trends in businesses and mainly in software development organizations. These changes and trends are the reasons for technological advances, increased processing powers, increased security, increased reliability of the internet, high bandwidth network access, and scalable storage area network. We have already discussed in our previous article how cloud computing can be combined with agile and briefly explained its advantages. But only knowing how useful it is for agile is not enough when you are looking towards cloud computing as an option to improve the performance of your organization along with agile . When you are deciding to include cloud computing you need to know what are its types and in what way it provides the benefits to agile and organization. So today we will see the types of cloud computing for agile and also its benefits in detail. There are five main types of cloud computing and three types ...

  We have seen how agile has done wonders for software development and also mentioned that it can be used for other industries to get benefits, especially focusing on an automobile, finance, and banking. But if we observe in detail we will obtain that it can be applied in every field providing immense advantages you can imagine. For example, let’s see how agile help in remodelling a house. Consider you are remodelling your kitchen by knocking walls, rerouting electric and plumbing connections, replacing appliances and cabinets, new lighting fixtures, replacing pantry cabinets, and repainting a complete area. This task becomes challenging as your wife is the main stakeholder who changes her design ideas while proceeding, there are multiple outside contractors involved, and manage cost and time at a reasonable level. To achieve this by using agile you can proceed with the below steps to obtain maximum benefits and overcome the challenges. Select Suitable Contractor   ...

  Agile methodology was introduced to help software developing organizations and teams to work efficiently, think differently, learn and re-learn from iterations, and deliver solutions on time. To achieve this agile is provided with core values and principles.  But even with this agile always tries to collaborate and involve other effective concepts and methods that can provide them achieve their goals. One such technology agile uses now to obtain faster delivery without defects is cloud computing . Agile concepts and principles can never be fully implemented due to rapidly changing requirements in the market and terms that work in a distributed environment. This creates an interruption in agile like scalability, transparency, smooth control of development, face-to-face communication, expert availability, resource management, and application building from different locations. These changing requirements demand a continuous environment for experimenting or testing ideas wh...

  Every leader and manager wants to lead high-performing teams. Even though agile produces efficient and quality teams but the teams which perform highly and repeatedly are always the focuses of discussion and are in the spotlight while providing a good example. Why are they valued so much? The highly performing agile teams produce high-quality exceptional results repeatedly irrespective of the challenges they face. They almost every time exceed the expectation of customers and management of the organization. The highly performing agile team is a group of highly skilled and aligned to a common goal, a cross-functional team that is committed to vision and value and works towards common objectives. These teams are innovative in their problem solving and also consist of a high level of collaboration and communication to provide superior results consistently. What makes these high-performing teams different from other teams? Their characteristics and building up make this dif...

  “ The right questions for the right people at the right time are at the heart of healthy group process – a top priority in effective and dynamic facilitation .” -Strachan One of the stance scrum masters needs to master is facilitation. To be a great scrum master needs to be a good facilitator. Without the quality of good facilitation, the scrum master will only be seen as the master of ceremonies or an event organizer. The skill of good facilitation leads the group attending an event to a high-quality decision. It’s the responsibility of the scrum master to lead and facilitate the scrum events like daily scrum, sprint review, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, and even product backlog refinement session. Scrum master needs to facilitate the scrum events including the people that are from their scrum team or even outside the scrum team. Scrum masters as facilitating have the power to change the complete direction and remove weaknesses from the groups and path within the g...