Visit Blog Home What is a Sprint retrospective? The Sprint Retrospective is the event in Agile which brings in the iterative, inspective and adaptive nature into picture. The team reflects upon the previous timebox with a view to learn some lessons, adjust the...
Splitting User Stories in Scrum
Scrum Teams Often Struggle with creating small piece of work that still is “usable” and can provide feedback. This article helps you to do just that. Read on to find some techniques to split a huge chunk of work in smaller manageable bits
Handling a 15 minute Daily Standup Meeting in Scrum
Visit Blog Home Best Practices on handling Daily Scrum Using the 3 questions effectively: The Product Owner and Scrum Master should highlight the importance of the three questions in front of the team members so they understand their purpose. Team members should...
Handling a Sprint Review Meeting
Visit Blog Home Best Practices around handling Sprint Review Meeting Communicate effectively: Team members who are most able to communicate effectively with the team, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and stakeholders should present, so that they can represent the team in...
What is a Persona?
Visit Blog Home What is a Persona? Personas are highly detailed fictional characters, representative of the majority of users and of other stakeholders who may not directly use the end product. Personas are created to identify the needs of the target user base....
What is Muda, Muri, Mura?
What is Muda, Muri, Mura? One of the key ways in which “Agility” can be achieved is by reducing variations and addressing elements which reduces productivity. There are fundamentally 3 types of variations that can be distinguished Muda : Waste, Non-Value...
DMAIC Methodology
Visit Blog Home What is DMAIC? The Lean-Six-Sigma projects follow the DMAIC methodology. DMAIC is an abbreviation for DEFINE, MEASURE, ANALYSE, IMPROVE and CONTROL. DMIAC is a data-driven improvement initiative used for improving, optimising and stabilizing business...
Why Lean-Six-Sigma go hand-in-hand?
Visit Blog Home Why Lean-Six-Sigma go hand-in-hand? The Key principles of Lean are Value – Define what is of value to the customer Eliminate Waste – Identify the Value Stream and eliminate what is of no value to end customer Flow – Create a constant...
What is Six Sigma?
Visit Blog Home What is Six Sigma? Six Sigma is a long term, forward thinking initiative designed to fundamentally improve the way of doing things so that quality improves and variations are reduced. Six Sigma is more sophisticated than applying simple problem solving...
Short Interval Management (SIM)
Visit Blog Home Short Interval Management (SIM) Did you know that the concept of Daily Stand-up meeting was there long back in the manufacturing world much before we IT guys were even born?? It was called Short Interval Management (SIM) and has Japanese roots. Short...