Is it OK to Convert Story Points to Days/Hours?
If you know how to convert Story Points to Days or Hours, why estimate in one way and convert them into other way? You could directly estimate in time units, …
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Is Scrum Enough?
Scrum is a process framework designed for new product development. Scrum is a guidance with few rules. But is it enough to do your product development? Probably not! As soon …
Roles in Scrum Organization – You Get-In or Get-Out
Scrum recognizes only 3 roles, ScrumMaster, Product Owner and the Development team. Scrum is a process framework for product development. For product development, we need someone who knows what to …
Path to Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM) for ScrumMaster
I have been getting lots of questions around how does one can become Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) from Scrum Alliance. I would like to take a crack at explaining path …
Certification or Knowledge – Where should you focus?
After running more than 100 Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) workshops, I would like to reflect little bit on where the workforce is going, especially in India! I hear these comments often: …
Coding Kata using TDD with my son
My son, Hardhik, started to learn programming using C++. He is freshman undergrad (1st year engineering). I thought of introducing TDD way of doing the programming so that he will …
My experience teaching Scrum to a non-profit organization
I recently received a request from a non-profit organization that they would like to join my CSM class. However, they have expressed that they can’t afford to pay the fee …
Agile talk with a 11 year old
I saw my 11 years old, Harshith, studying French this morning. He has opted for French as his second language. He is pretty good with learning new languages, so I …
My son is applying for colleges.. Agile at our rescue
My son, Hardhik, is in 12th grade and now is busy applying for colleges in USA. As many of you know, college application process takes lot of time and he has …
Scrum Master Effectiveness – Indian Context – Part 3
This is the Part 3 and last post of this series. Problem #3: Scrum Masters are not well trained The problem statement is that the Scrum Masters don’t have enough …
