What is Your Leadership Style?
Here are few stories to illustrate Leadership styles of of few leaders: Leader 1: Ram is an expert technologist and is recently promoted as a manager for the product he has …
Dual Roles in Scrum, Is It Good or Bad?
This is a very common question I get in most CSM workshops. It is hard to say without knowing the context. So, I generally give the following guidance. Ask your …
Did you Fail in a ScrumMaster Interview? It may not be Your Fault!
Recently I referred one of my students to a company which I am also coaching. The person I referred is pretty good in agile concepts, however he was not selected. …
How to Choose a Scrum Training Program
With so many agile certifications, trainers and training companies around, are you confused with where to go and what to do? This article could be a help in deciding your …
How I Mentored, Counselled and Coached my Son for a Math Competition
My younger son, Harshith, is now getting into his high school (9th Grade). I am a true believer that building self-learning capability in kids is very important. I kept encouraging …
An Estimation Experiment
Estimating work (stories) probably is the hardest part in software development. Every team I have seen seemed to struggle with it. Lately, there is lot of talk about #NoEstimates. I …
Whose job is it anyway ?
Teams those newly started with scrum get into the role dilemma of who should do what. This is pretty common since their roles in earlier way of working probably are …
Do you write your stories right?
By now, I hope most of the people who practice agile knows what a user story is. I observed in lot of teams that either they don’t write user stories …
Game – Test small, test often
This is a game to demonstrate Testing small and Testing often is more affective. Take any building blocks. I used Jenga wooden blocks. I chose 36 Jenga blocks and numbered …
Test First Development is like driving a car with GPS
I had this funny thought that what if you have a GPS that tells you that you made a wrong turn only after you made a turn (I know no …
