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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

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

How to fail as an Agile Coach

April 28, 2022April 28, 2022Agile, Agile Studio, ScrumAgile, Agile coach, Scrum, Scrum Coach, Scrum Master

Reading Time: 5 minutes Scrum defines three specific accountabilities within the Scrum Team: the Developers, the Product Owner, and the Scrum Master. — Scrum Guide 2020 When it comes to the Scrum framework, these three roles with their liability are the minimum required to deliver a potentially “done” Increment. The fact that Scrum doesn’t define other roles/positions/functions doesn’t rule out the fact that their liability isn’t valuable. A Scrum Continue Reading

Daily Scrum Meetings – A Waste of Time?

March 30, 2022March 30, 2022Agile, Agile StudioAgile, Project Management, Scrum

Reading Time: 4 minutes Daily Scrum meeting is a waste of time? People hate it. Yes, you heard it right. And in fact, I’m totally in favor of the above statement. Daily scrum meetings are a pure waste of time if the “Scrum Team” doesn’t know how to run it. I have interviewed people to get an understanding of their thoughts on what they think about DSM. Mostly the Continue Reading

How to do Effective Capacity Planning in Scrum?

September 30, 2021September 30, 2021Agile, Scrum, Tech BlogsAgile, Agile Teams, Capacity Planning, framework, Management, Scrum, Sprint

Reading Time: 3 minutes Scrum is the most widely used Agile framework. In Scrum, the work is divided into smaller goals which can be completed within time-boxed iterations called sprints. The length of each sprint is fixed and is normally between one week and one month, with two weeks being the most common. Unfortunately, many scrum projects are not successful as teams ignore or miscalculate their capacity to do the Continue Reading

What is a Scrum Master and its roles and responsibilities.

September 6, 2021September 6, 2021Agile, ScrumAgile, Scrum, Scrum Coach, Scrum Master, servant leader

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hello everyone, I use to hear a lot of questions regarding the scrum master. So today we are going to know about the scrum master, and his/her roles and responsibilities What is a Scrum Master? Scrum master is the servant leader liable for ensuring the team lives agile values and principles and follows the processes and practices. The Scrum Master is usually considered a teacher Continue Reading

SCRUMBAN- Stop Starting, Start Finishing

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021Agile, ScrumAgile, Agile Teams, kanban, Scrum, Scrum Master, scrumban, wiplimit

Reading Time: 3 minutes What is Scrumban Scrumban is a hybrid Agile framework combined from Scrum and Kanban. It’s a great transition step from scrum to Kanban. A 2 week iteration with a pull based system is recommended to minimise batching of work and making this model effective. When to use Scrumban 1- Scrumban is a great solution for teams who need the structure of Scrum with the flexibility Continue Reading

Let’s Understand The Agile Methodology

May 18, 2021May 18, 2021Agile, Studio-ScalaAgile

Reading Time: 2 minutes First we have to see the previous methodology waterfall model which was used in software development and what are the drawbacks of waterfall model and how Agile overcome that issues which was present in waterfall model. Issues of Waterfall model Waterfall model consists of various phases like Requirement phase, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Maintenance phase.For long term software development, waterfall model can be used. Continue Reading

Agile Testing Pyramid

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021Agile, Test Automation Studio, TestingAgile, test automation, test pyramid, Testing

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hey folks, In this blog, we aim to briefly explore the agile testing pyramid. So, let’s get going. Here, we will get acquainted with the following topics by the end of this blog What a testing pyramid, an overview? Types of test Pyramid Unit Tests Service Tests UI Tests What is the testing pyramid? The agile test automation pyramid is a graphical strategy guide for Continue Reading

Ten Principles For Agile Testers

October 7, 2020October 22, 2020API Testing, Integration Testing, Test Automation Studio, Testing, Testing, Unit TestingAgile, Agile Teams, agile transformation, agiledeveloper, automation, automation testing, Testing, testing skills

Reading Time: 6 minutes In the previous blog we saw that what exactly is Agile testing and in this blog we will see in introduction to Principles For Agile Testers. What is an Agile tester? So get into the principles for Agile testers we first need to know what is an Agile tester? A professional tester who is not scared of change has knowledge about technical and business aspects Continue Reading

Agile Testing: An introduction

October 7, 2020October 22, 2020Agile, API Testing, Integration Testing, Scaled Agile, Scrum, Test Automation Studio, Testing, Testing, Unit TestingAgile, Agile Teams, agile transformation, test automation, Testing

Reading Time: 5 minutes When we talk about Agile the first thing that pops into our mind is Agile development. But here we are going to see and learn about an introduction to Agile Testing that how testers work in Agile, the contrast between Agile Testing and development, and traditional vs. Agile approach. What is Agile Testing? In the world of software development, there are two very common terminologies, Continue Reading

Agile Test Automation: Testing quadrants (Defining the testing scope)

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020Tech Blogs, Test Automation StudioAgile, test automation

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hello Everyone, This blog briefly discusses how the testing quadrants help the agile teams to define their testing scope for maximum ROI. In agile development, agile and DevOps collaboration changed the whole perspective of testing the product. Nowadays the agile teams are doing rapid development and they need tests that can support the team as well as criticize the product. Agile Testing Quadrants is a Continue Reading