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This short and entertaining video provides a quick introduction of the Agile process. This must watch video is an inspiration for Agile Experts and a good starting point for Agile Newbies. This takes you from the ancient history of software development process to the state-of-art Agile processes. Have Fun and share your feedback! If you wish to learn concepts highlighted in this video then visit: http://www.agilehelpline.com/ .
This article is dedicated to the people endlessly discussing relationship between Scrum and Agile. Scrum is one of the biggest process invention but it does not guarantee success. Even creators of Scrum accept that more than half of the Scrum implementation does not go well. Why is that? Scrum is critical but what is more critical than Scrum? Through a creative analogy, the following video helps you understand why we need to be careful with Scrum implementations. Here are the key learning obje...
It is easy to deviate from the goals we set for ourselves. If you are on a agile journey then take a step back and try to validate if you are going on a right track. May be you are too busy in implementing a process that is not really agile. It doesn't hurt to validate. Do you know types of agility? What are agility drills? How can agility drills help you in successfully implementing strategy? This video provides a fresh perspective on agility and explains it with the help of real life example...
Agile brings a lot of behavioral and process changes, hence, adoption does not happen overnight. It takes a considerable amount of time for teams to iteratively understand and experience agile concepts. As a matter of fact, 2-4 weeks iterations (sprints) attract most of the teams wanting to be agile. Teams start iterating without clearly understanding value of other key agile concepts e.g. burndown charts, backlog management, definition of done, estimation practices etc. These teams start appr...
Agile has not only reinforced the interest in project management, but also challenged the conventional ideas about such management. It focuses on project management institutions where it is difficult to plan ahead with mechanisms for empirical process control, such as where feedback loops constitute the core element of product development compared to traditional command-and-control-oriented management. It represents a radically new approach for planning and managing requirements a.k.a. backlog...
One of the misconception is that agile product development process doesn't do enough planning. In reality, Agile does lot more planning and risk mitigation than traditional processes. Agile focuses on planning very often instead of doing comprehensive and assumption based planning once. Agile Planning (a.k.a. planning onion) has 6 levels - Strategy, Portfolio, Release, Iteration, Daily, and Continuous. The following video blog peels off each layer of planning onion to provide details of planni...
Is your team focusing on perfecting agile execution while loosing focus on strategy? Are product owners not prioritizing backlog based on strategic needs of your organization? If answer is yes then try Agile Strategy Manifesto prescribed in this video to yield better results. For more details please visit: http://www.agilehelpline.com/
In this innovative video, Mr. Agile is helping an agile team through a series of virtual discussions with the team members. These discussions cover many topics such as agile manifesto, sprint "0", role of scrum master, definition of ready and done etc. For more details visit: http://www.agilehelpline.com/2011/04/agile-iteration-planning.html.
