Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak about Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) at Agile PM meet up group in Melbourne. It was really an honor to speak with such an incredibly experienced, knowledgeable audience. At the end of the…
Handling Requests for Unnecessary Artifacts
The following was originally published in Mike Cohn's monthly newsletter. If you like what you're reading, sign up to have this content delivered to your inbox weeks before it's posted on the blog, here. “Working software over comprehensive documentation.” You’ve…
Critiquing One of My Own Real User Stories
In case you haven’t noticed, a few months ago we launched Front Row Agile, a site dedicated to video training courses on agile and Scrum. This has placed me in the role of product owner for the site. And recently,…
What is Loyalty ?
No one plans to fall sick isn't it? Similarly, when I caught some flu couple of years ago, we were eager to see a doctor. Being new to our suburb, googled around to find a nearby medical center. Took an…
Don’t Equate Story Points to Hours
I’ve been quite adamant lately that story points are about time, specifically effort. But that does not mean you should say something like, “One story point = eight hours.” Doing this obviates the main reason to use story points in…
Increase speed by incentives and sacrifice quality
Recently I read an article in the news paper about improving the speed of passport delivery to citizens. This is the news published in Times of India. It seems that passports are getting delayed as the police verification is taking…
Your understanding of Kaizen is wrong
Kaizen is popularly associated with continuous learning or continuous improvement. However, where people get wrong is who should continuously improve ? Most Agilists and Leanists use Kaizen in the context of team improvement. That is, an agile team should continuously…