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Naveen Kumar Singh is an Agile Coach and a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), facilitates Scrum workshops in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Colombo, and Dubai.

Is SAFe Not Agile. There has been some amount of criticism about SAFe.

Is SAFe Not Agile

Some Agile experts are not hard-core fans of SAFe. They say there are hundreds of pages, hours of videos, several different training courses, and more. And this makes SAFe more complicated, bureaucratic than the Agile manifesto recommends. They also have this opinion that SAFe is so heavy, maybe it is not Agile at all.

Let us dig deeper. Most of us started our Agile journey with one framework, and that is Scrum. When more and more organizations and teams adopted Agile, it required scaling in a big way. That’s when SAFe came to the party. Let us look at some of the Agile principles and how they are embedded in SAFe. Individual interactions over Processes and Tools :- If you look at the even basic configuration of SAFe, i.e., Essential SAFe big picture looks complex showcasing the different roles involved, frameworks like Scrum, XP, Kanban, core competencies.

Why the perception of SAFe not being Agile? SAFe Scrum Master vs Scrum Master. Do you have any of these questions in your mind?

SAFe Scrum Master vs Scrum Master

Is a SAFe Scrum Master and Scrum Master having two different accountabilities or the same? Is it two other names in different frameworks? Scrum Master Interview Questions. What do you do as a scrum master?

Scrum Master Interview Questions

I help the cross-functional scrum team in becoming high-performing and self-managed. Agile Project Management Vs Traditional Project Management. Project management has become an essential part of our fast-paced world.

Agile Project Management Vs Traditional Project Management

It has become the indispensable element for running businesses smoothly. From small and medium to large scale, every business size depends on project management to successfully deliver their products and service. In recent times, there are multiple project management approaches available all around the world. And, agile is one of the most popular project management approaches among all. Technical Debt and UNDONE work. Impact UNDONE Work – Delayed feedback cycle and the value deliveryTechnical Debt – Increased Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) You are the Product Owner, and If you have to decide, then which one will you care?

Technical Debt and UNDONE work

Introduction of Certified Scrum Developer Course. Scrum Alliance introduced Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) Training course a decade back to strengthen your technical skills in Agile software development.

Introduction of Certified Scrum Developer Course

It is not a popular program compare to a Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner. There are reasons for not gaining popularity. But at the same time, it is not needed because CSD teaches the requirement, development, testing, and sustainability of a software product. Scrum Vs. Kanban: Uncover the Key Considerations. Scrum vs.

Scrum Vs. Kanban: Uncover the Key Considerations

Kanban is one of the most trending comparisons in the world of agile methodology! We often use these terms while talking about the agile way of solving problems. However, while Scrum and Kanban both have differences, their principles are the same. List of Anti-Patterns of a Scrum Master. Product Owner maximizes value, and Developers deliver it, so what does the Scrum Master do besides facilitating and setting up events?

List of Anti-Patterns of a Scrum Master

It is the most common question I happen to hear in my classes and many other forums. This thought process typically leads to many anti-patterns for the Scrum Master role. Often, many people who tend to pick up this role do not understand the responsibilities (I will talk about it in another post) of the role and only look at the superficial aspects of the role and then get caught in the myriad of anti-patterns. Does a Scrum Master Coach the Product Owner? Scrum Master is a role within the Scrum Team, and scrum masters accountable for upholding the Scrum.

Does a Scrum Master Coach the Product Owner?

Scrum masters provide services to the scrum teams, product owners, and organization. They do it through facilitation, teaching, mentoring, coaching, and causing the removal of impediments. What is Sprint Retrospective? As a Scrum Master, what has been your biggest struggle?

What is Sprint Retrospective?

I struggled to create a culture of continuous improvement within the team. And you might think what is to struggle there, run a Sprint Retrospective and get your improvements, so easy or is it? Let me ask a few questions/statements and see if any of it resonates with you. Does your Retrospective follows (all the time) the template What went well? What Is Sprint Planning? If you want to build a product, you have to make a product backlog with all the essential requirements. Next, you have to start working on the high priority requirements to build the product. You can start working on the product requirement within Sprint.

Now, what is a sprint? Well, when you start building a product, the entire product may take a longer time to complete. Express Your Creative Side With Us. We at Agilemania believe everyone is creative and just need a platform to demonstrate creativity. I am creative in writing and like to express my creative side through writing. OK, I may not be perfect in that, but I don’t give up easily. Agilemania has been a platform for me to demonstrate my creativity. We are opening this platform for everyone willing to demonstrate their creative side. All kind of creativity is welcome. What do you need to do? Come up with hand-drawn sketches, doodles videos, blogs, research papers, case studies, posters, videos, articles, and stories about agile, product management, project management, software development, agility in social works, marketing, sales, and human resource management.

What can you expect from us? We shall review your work, will guide you if any adjustment is needed, will teach you at our cost if required, and will refine it together to make it releasable. Technical Debt. Short Answer – “NO” But WHY? Product development is complex where we deal with many unknowns, and learning happens throughout the Product Lifecycle. When one says learning, this learning can be on the business side and the technical side. Over time, developers evolve on their technical skills and practices, which requires refactoring for the Products. If not done or partially done, or delayed refactoring leads to Technical Debt and hence the legacy code. Agile Fundamentals ICAgile ( ICP ) Certification Training. From concept/idea that may be vague, product owners are taken through the steps to turn this into a tangible and valuable artefact: a product vision statement.

In a group exercise, the product vision statement is developed using proven techniques such as Elevator Pitch, Lean Canvas and Product Box. From the product vision statement, a story map is developed, breaking down the vision into a manageable number of steps or functional areas, depending upon what best suits the product. With this initial outline in place, high-level functional requirements are written, introducing the concept of user stories and epics. From concept/idea that may be vague, product owners are taken through the steps to turn this into a tangible and valuable artefact: a product vision statement. In a group exercise, the product vision statement is developed using proven techniques such as Elevator Pitch, Lean Canvas and Product Box. Agile and Scrum Certification Course Hong Kong - Agilemania.

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Measure and Control the Technical Debt - Agilemania. Previous articles of mine explained about, what is the technical debt and how this impacts the total cost of ownership. The articles also included why a Product Should care about the technical debt and allow the development team to refactor the code to control the technical debt. Anything that can be measured can be improved. For improving (lower) the technical debt, the pre-requisite is to measure it first. Developers or sometimes the Product companies do categorize the technical debts. There are no rules defined, but one can organize the technical debts and then use some methods to deal with that.

The debt classification:The debt of defectsThe debt of designThe debt of compliance and documentationThe debt of ignored testsThe debt of algorithms and flawed logicsThe debt os the architectureThe debt of team skillsMany more….. To deal with technical debt, the developers should follow three simple steps: SONARQUBE is an open-source tool that comes with plugins for various coding languages.

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It is also very popular among quality engineers to develop test automation framework. BDD helps in describing requirement in the form of feature file and scenarios, scenarios further get described in the format of Given, When, and Then. Gherkin language can be used to write feature files in more than 40 languages. Some of the important keywords of Gherkin mentioned below that helps in describing features and scenarios:- What is a Product Backlog in Scrum: A Complete Guide - Agilemania. What is Product Backlog Refinement? - Agilemania. How do you eat an “elephant”? Getting Started with The Personal Agility System™️ - Agilemania. Personal Agility System a coaching and prioritization framework, co-created by the scrum coaches Peter Stevens and Maria Matarelli, which helps people to do more what matters and with a greater impact through their actions. In today’s life, many of us… rather I should say almost all of us have more things to do than the time we have, to do them.

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