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Design Thinking in Project Management

March 31, 2023April 3, 2023Agile, Agile StudioAgile, Design Thinking, Project Management

Reading Time: 6 minutes Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that places the needs and experiences of the end-user at the center of the process. It is a human-centered approach to innovation and problem-solving that involves empathy, creativity, and experimentation. In project management, design thinking is used to develop innovative solutions to complex problems, with the goal of creating products or services that meet the needs of the end-user. Continue Reading

How to create Agile Release Plan

January 25, 2023February 1, 2023Agile, Agile Studio, Project Management, ScrumAgile, Agile Release, Release Plan

Reading Time: 5 minutes The agile release plan helps in align the teams by managing multiple phases that can pitch into a creative and innovative problem- working. Your agile release plan will eventually display what you can anticipate out of each sprint and insure your pains are ray- concentrated. What is Agile Release Plan? Agile release planning is a procedure that enables development teams and product holders to read the compass of their systems for optimizing coffers and people. It helps in bettering the quality of work committed, minimizing loss, and perfecting success rates. Agile release planning is a product Continue Reading

ADAPTing Agile: 5 Killer steps to Change And Innovation

October 25, 2022October 25, 2022Agile, Agile Studio, Scaled Agile, Scrum, Tech BlogsAgile, Agile coach, Agile Teams, agile transformation

Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction ADAPTing Agile development, as the leading Agile speaker and author Mike Cohn describes “how one can iterate toward increased agility by combining a senior-level guiding coalition with multiple action teams.” To successfully implement a change, senior leadership need to create a sense of urgency in their organization so that employees, lower-level managers and other impacted stakeholders are on board. It will help gain confidence Continue Reading

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How to Create Sprints in Jira

September 6, 2022September 13, 2022Agile, Agile Studio, ScrumAgile development, jira, Sprint

Reading Time: 6 minutes In this blog post, we’ll be holding a look at precisely what sprints are and why you should apply them within your association. We also have some proficient tips on how you can produce a flourishing sprint proceeding in Jira so that you can start catching results snappily and efficiently. What is Sprint in Jira? A sprint is a fixed time period in an uninterrupted Continue Reading

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How to differentiate between Product Owner and Business Analyst Role?

August 4, 2022August 5, 2022Agile, Agile Studio

Reading Time: 3 minutes Roles of Product Owner and Business Analyst: Product owner and the Business analyst are the two key players in requirements gathering from the stake holders and analysis process. Role of a Product Owner: Basic intent of a product owner is to represent the customer to the development team. The key responsibility of the product owner is to manage and give the visibility to the product Continue Reading

Tips to write User stories

August 4, 2022August 5, 2022Agile, Agile Studio, Scrum

Reading Time: 4 minutes Before starting on tips to write user stories, let’s first understand what a User Story, who owns the User Story, the elements of the User Story, etc is. What is a User Story? A user story is the lowest unit of work in an Agile frame. It’s an end aim, not a point, expressed from the software user’s perspective. A user story is an informal, Continue Reading

An Ideal Sprint Length in Scrum

July 25, 2022July 26, 2022Agile, Agile Studio, Scaled Agile, Scrum

Reading Time: 3 minutes When the teams start working in the Scrum methodology within Agile project management one thing comes into everyone’s mind i.e; Sprint. In this blog, we will come to know What is Sprint?? How long it could be?? Who determines Sprint Lenght etc. What is Sprint Lenght? The life span of a sprint is called Sprint length. While there’s no hard-and-fast rule, the thumb rule is Continue Reading

What are the important 6 qualities of a great Scrum Master?

July 15, 2022July 22, 2022Agile, Agile Studio, Tech Blogs

Reading Time: 3 minutes Enjoys helping the team and being active part of it In order to understand the needs of a team, a great scrum master must be an active part of it. Scrum Masters need to enjoy helping others. This cannot be something a Scrum Master does grudgingly. Helping can be particularly challenging if the Scrum Master is in a dual role and expected to contribute also Continue Reading

The reason why to not modify Scrum

July 14, 2022July 15, 2022Agile, Agile Studio, Scrum

Reading Time: 4 minutes Remember that Scrum is a frame, not a set of work instructions. The Scrum frame is veritably feather-light, but what it includes is essential. Every piece of the frame is there for a reason. Making the following variations can come with negative consequences. 1) Not having a Product Owner There are three accountabilities in Scrum: The Scrum Master is primarily responsible for perfecting the stepping down of Scrum within the association. The Developers do the work of Continue Reading

UNDERSTAND SCRUM IN A NUTSHELL

July 11, 2022July 15, 2022Agile, Agile Studio, Scrum

Reading Time: 4 minutes What Is Scrum? Scrum is a lightweight framework. It helps teams collaborate, self-organize and learn from experience. Thereby, enabling teams to generate value frequently through adaptive solutions to solve complex problems. The Scrum journey starts with stakeholders having an idea to develop a product. Stakeholders / Management empowers a product owner to collect their ideas, requirements and features. Product owner make a list of ideas Continue Reading

Doing Agile Vs Being Agile

June 8, 2022June 9, 2022AgileAgile

Reading Time: 4 minutes Doing Agile can be achieved overnight, Being Agile is a journey. To use sport as an analogy, anybody can pick up a swim float, or a swimming costume and begin swimming. However to come to be a swimmer one ought to undertake the swimmer ideas (take rest days, strokes schooling in addition to underwater breath patience, etc.) and values (area, perseverance, never giving up, etc.) Continue Reading

Sprint Review: It’s Not Just A Demo

June 2, 2022June 3, 2022Agile, Agile Studio

Reading Time: 3 minutes What is a sprint review? It’s a meeting for the Team to get together for a demo, or show-and-tell, at the end of a Sprint that what they done. The Scrum framework calls for the completion of product promotions that can be submitted during each run. Therefore, you should be able to show a fully functional feature, or set of features, at the end of Continue Reading

What are spikes in scrum and how to use spike scrum?

May 31, 2022June 1, 2022Agile, Agile Studio, Tech Blogs

Reading Time: 3 minutes What is spike in scrum? Spike is nothing but an experiment that provides the developers to evaluate the functional increment. spike story will not deliver any business value in the current sprint , however it will help business delivery in the coming sprint . A Spike is created when the team does not know all the details and need to investigate or explore . The Continue Reading