Myth – Scrum Master being the Mandatory participant of Daily Scrum Common Misconceptions Most people consider Daily Scrum is presumed to be a Status Meeting where Scrum Master takes status from the teams. One of the most common reasons for this is because people have...
Myth about every Sprint Output resulting in a go-live to production
Myth about every Sprint Output resulting in a go-live to production Common Misconceptions Most people feel that every Sprint MUST make an Increment which HAS to be sent to production and given to the end-users for using. This is actually not true. Sometimes, it is not...
Commitments in Scrum
Visit Blog Home Commitments in Scrum Each artifact contains a commitment to ensure it provides information that enhances transparency and focus against which progress can be measured: · For the Product Backlog it is the Product Goal. · For the Sprint...
Myth – Sprint Review Being a Gate to Releasing Value
Myth – Sprint Review Being a Gate to Releasing Value Common Misconception Most people treat Sprint Review as a “gate check” forum to release the product into production. Thus, the Sprint Review ends up being a formal meeting with gate-checking checklists to go through...
Tailoring PRINCE2 to suit your Project Environment
Tailoring PRINCE2 to suit your Project Environment One of the Mandatory PRINCE2 principles is “Tailor to suit project Environment”. So what do you mean by “Tailoring“? Tailoring means Adapting a method or process to suit the situation in which...
Myth – Product Owner should not be invited in a Sprint Retrospective
Myth – Product Owner should not be invited in a Sprint Retrospective Common Misconception A Product Owner is considered a “Client” or “Customer”. So, most people feel, how can you invite a “Client” for an internal forum to discuss “what went well, what did not?”...
What is Service Desk?
What is Service Desk? Service Desk serves as a Point of Contact between a Business organization (IT) and its employees, customers, as well as business partners. They provide access to users and stakeholders to report issues, questions, queries and requests, and have...
ITSM – ITIL : How Similar and How Different?
ITSM – ITIL : How Similar and How Different? ITSM ITIL ITSM stands for IT service management. ITIL meaning IT infrastructure library It is the process involved in managing IT services provided to customers (like planning, delivering, operating and controlling )...
Myth – Sprint Review being the review of the Developers done by Product Owner
Myth – Sprint Review being the review of the Developers done by Product Owner Common Misconceptions and Negative Implications · It is a common practice for a Product Owner to come up with a set of requirements in the Sprint Planning and disappear during the...
Connection Between Lean, Agile, DevOps, Six-Sigma, ITSM, Scrum
Visit Blog Home Connection Between Lean, Agile, DevOps, Six-Sigma, ITSM, Scrum Let’s understand the connection between various philosophies, methods and Scrum framework. First a definition of what the terms Philosophy, Framework, Methodology and Standards mean...