Introduction Let us think of a virtual scenario - You are a Product Owner in a small to medium sized organization and will be starting on a new project. The Product Owner is an important role in Agile framework. She is the bridge between the business goals that an organization pursues and the scrum teams which achieves them. She is the interface on whom the organization depends to maximize value streams. She extracts maximum value for the customers by owning and prioritizing

Enterprise agile teams often face multiple dimension to the cone of uncertainty such as risk and dependencies. One of Constant themes across scrum ceremonies is to reduce this cone of uncertainty through iterative process. In this article we will try to figure out how Sprint Refinement helps agile teams in this activity. The Story So Far You have successfully setup your Scrum team with an initial backlog. The initial Backlog has been created from a Product Roadmap which has b

Scrumban?? Is this one of those process gimmicks which are better suited for theory rather than actual business? These were my immediate thoughts on hearing the concept of Scrumban ! Why then, you ask, am I writing about it?  Because I have felt its enormous impact and want to share the process with which I helped implement it, with you. Mind you, if you are a fence-sitter, I will convert you ! I will start by laying out the problem I faced in detail due to which I started lo