Try first.. then test
Testers who are new to agile software development often struggle to find a way to test the code in smaller pieces. This is mainly because they are trained to test …
Make Your Tele-team Work
Here is the article I co-authored with Lisa Crispin. http://www.stickyminds.com/BetterSoftware/magazine.asp?fn=cifea
Do you understand your “Velocity”?
Velocity is a metric that is used in agile projects to represent how fast a team is building the software. Velocity is number of story points (or what ever the …
True Collaboration!
Last week we had an issue in production. One of the reports was hitting the servers pretty hard. Our “Production support monkey” (all developers rotate this job every sprint) mentioned …
Self-Organization makes ‘Agile teams’ more agile!
We talk about self-organization is one of the most important aspect of agile teams. But what is self-organization and how does that happen? Is it easy or hard to self-organize? …
What should you do in “Technical Debt” sprint anyway?
Now that you convinced your product owner to allow you to have technical debt sprint, what should you do in those anyways? Let us get into product owner’s shoes and …
What could we learn from Cricket?
I mean, Cricket – the game that is played in most of the major countries of the world. We had our “Agile Hyderabad” group meeting yesterday. We spent most of …
Why agile teams need “Technical Debt” sprints?
Lot of people asked me why do they need “Technical Debt” sprints. In my experience lot of product owners don’t see value in these sprints. I would like to make …
My First Blog
I wanted to write blogs ever since they were invented. Enough of procrastination… Finally, I am determined to start writing at least before my son starts writing one. I am …
