Agile

Story points are not about estimation, but about breaking up your work into manageable pieces — “I want to stop using story points.” “What?” “It’s a joke, right?” “But, can we just do that?” “But doesn’t that go completely against Scrum?” “That’s really the last thing I expected a Scrum Master to say!” This is a conversation I had with one of my teams recently. I…

A few months ago, I embarked on a career change and joined a new company. With the offer accepted, I had a month to wrap things up at my previous job. It felt like the end of a chapter, and I found myself getting nostalgic and reflecting on my time…

Business agility, time to market, and other such buzzwords are all over the place as organizations strive to deliver software faster. Maintaining quality, and security is often an afterthought or seen as a roadblock. …

Throughout the course of my career, which has taken me from being an intern to a design lead, I have worked in a variety of IT setups, ranging from multi-national corporations to startups. They have all claimed to use an agile process. A technique devised by engineers to assist teams…

This week started with a stimulating conversation I had with my colleague, Sascha, about strategies for process improvement. Initially, I intended to adopt an incremental approach. However, Sascha, well-versed in Six Sigma methodology, led me to reconsider this strategy, opening my eyes to a new realm of process optimization. Before…

In this era of digital transformation, which is quickly evolving focus toward digital acceleration, professional digital product management has become an indispensable discipline for organizations and businesses aiming to excel. The true business value of modern product management is complex as it stretches across many factors. …

Explore the methods of design thinking, Lean Startup and Agile to build a viable solution — Suppose you’re a chef with a kitchen full of ingredients, but unsure of the dish to prepare. Here, Design Thinking is your recipe book, empathizing with your audience’s tastes, and ideating potential dishes. Lean Startup is your taste test strategy, creating a basic version of a dish (MVP) for feedback…

Every developer have been in a situation, where they are stuck in the middle of their task due to shortage of information about the task, or where the task has a more lot effort than the estimation to be done or … . What can be done to prevent these…

Mastering Monte Carlo Forecasting: Transforming Spreadsheets into Powerful Project Delivery Tools — This article aims to introduce key concepts on the topic of Monte Carlo Simulation, and will be followed more complex and technical articles in a series I’m naming Shake It Up! Pinning dates to project or feature delivery is perhaps the least exciting part of the work. Yet, when talking…