Cognitive Contradiction

Contradictions Matrix for Car On Slope and Quick Quality Product Release Cognitive Contradiction Brakes and Accelerator are both desirable Features of the any Vehicle. Though they are capable and many a time function mutually exclusively, I  have considered a specific situation i.e Trying to move a stationery Car from a slope, where these two features [...]

Agile Pit-stop and Agile Pit-Strategy

It is fun to compare Agile and Formula I Racing or for that matter any car race. The pit stop is very critical aspect in car racing. The players and teams sketch out very carefully though out pit strategy plans with respect to number of stops, how many miles the car should have been driven [...]

Scrum-a perfect fit for Kano model

Scrum model of Agile Project Management best addresses the excellent Kano model of Customer Satisfaction.   Types of Customer perception given by Kano model will be discussed here. There are features that will create varied perceptions on customers mind. Kano model serves as great guidance in understanding and figuring out how to delight the customer. [...]

Agile,CTQ and CTC

Agile,Critical to Quality (CTQ) and Critical to Customer (CTC) Critical to Quality(CTQ) factors are meeting functional requirements,  catering to non functional requirements, complying to statutory and safety requirements, employee productivity, schedule, defects etc. Critical to Customer (CTC) factors are on time release, defect free product, SLA adherence, service availability, communication, consistent service and delivery quality [...]

Lean not Leaner (Simple not Simpler)

Lean (eliminate heaviness) but not leaner (Lacking fuel). Use Tools to reduce waste (effort) and don’t eliminate unit testing, good estimation and effective reviews. Agile ways of development means ensuring light weight and efficient velocity for the project engine to take off to iteration destination. However in the name of simplicity we should not make [...]

SCRUM – Stories and Estimation – Part II

Planning Poker Estimation for Scrum: Can use Planning Poker method to get consensus and arrive the stories value for estimating story points. Use athletic sprint notation for categorizing the complexities of story points.   Attribute categories like L (League), Q (Quarters), S ( Semis) and F (Finals) for complexity of the stories. L being the [...]

SCRUM – Stories and Estimation – Part I

Story is a useful perceivable Value to a stakeholder. Customer or Scrum master can define stories for the prioritized backlog items in the running sprint. It should be done in user pitch and to developer understanding. There is no firm requirement in defining stories. We can use the SCRUM acronym for defining and estimating stories. [...]

Value Stream Mapping in Agile

 Visually documenting a process for information flow and process flow.  Identifies the existing state and defines future state.  Helps in finding root causes for weak process areas. Data is obtained from different sources like technical reviews, project management reviews, code walkthroughs, Fagan inspections, internal audits and assessments.  Overall the data assimilated [...]

Agile Delivery – Hindsight or Hunch

Neither. It is a Hybrid approach of many essentials. For the Hunch: Experienced team knows what are the priorities for the current sprint release. Experienced team that knows why they are skipping few processes explicitly. Experienced team has ability to help customer in driving the Agile projects. Experienced team ensures that requirements are PULLed from [...]

Seek and analyze data

Nallthorum Nadi Muraiseyya  Mannavan Nallthorum Nadu Kedum.  King who daily seeks to Analyze not, will lead his nation gradually perish  A Leader who does not seek and analyze data will come to see his nation / corporation leading to attrition.  In Agile analogy the product owner who is not collaboratively involved with his scrum master [...]