Planning Poker / Task Boards
What is a Task Board ?
Task Board is a visual tool to represent work and its path towards completion. Task boards usually represent tasks that are in progress, upcoming tasks that...
Respect and Openness values of Scrum
What does the ‘respect’ value in Scrum refer to ?
The ‘respect’ value of Scrum is having respect for the Scrum team member’s diverse backgrounds, experiences, and range of skills that enables them...
Agile in 2 Minutes and the Agile Movement
Explain Agile in 2 minutes ?
Agile refers to the Mindset or the set of attitudes to respond quickly to customer requests. Agile includes the set of Methods and Methodologies that enable responding...
Agile Value – Responding to Change over Following a Plan
What do you understand by – “Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation” ?
It means for a project team it is far more important to deliver software products to the users that does...
Differences between Predictive and Adaptive development methods
Why would one use Agile ?
Project teams should adopt Agile methodologies because delivering software products and solutions according to the values & principles in Agile Manifesto gives plenty of benefits vis-à-vis...
How does a Scrum Project look like
How can a Scrum team be most effective ?
To be effective a team needs to understand the values of Scrum and the Agile Manifesto principles. This helps the team get into...
User Stories / Story Point / T Shirt sizes / Story Maps
What are the common approaches to sizing User Stories ?
The common approaches to sizing User Stories include using – Story Points and T-shirt sizes.
What is a Story Point ?
Story Point is...
Why is Scrum the most common approach to Agile and why do teams adopting...
What is Scrum ?
Scrum is a simple, lightweight framework for delivering products and solutions iteratively and incrementally.
Also, Scrum is an Agile framework of iterative and incremental product and solutions delivery...
How should a Scrum master respond to these situations ?
You have joined as a Scrum Master for a team and the lead engineer refuses to join the Daily Standup saying that he already has too many meetings and that if...
Role played by a Scrum Master and the Core Values of Scrum
What is the role played by the Scrum Master ?
The Scrum Master helps the team understand and execute Scrum. The Scrum Master job is to help the Development Team, the Product...