Sumanth Bathula

Agile

March 6, 2018

Maintain right ‘information radiators’ well

Information Radiators provide an effective way to communicate project status, issues, or metrics using physical boards or digital screens kept at team work areas which..

Agile

February 26, 2018

Scrum : Artifacts

The artifacts play a vital role for the team to reflect themselves on how they are doing with the agreed goal. Artifacts defined by Agile..

Agile

February 22, 2018

Scrum : Ceremonies

The ceremonials are organized events to foster a team spirit between the actors and to rhythm the iterations. Iteration /Sprint Planning The PO and Agile..

Agile

February 19, 2018

Experienced Agile Lead (/ Scrum Master)

Understanding Scrum is not tough, but practicing the same will be, so scrum masters need to have deeper knowledge and good scrum work experience. He/she..

Agile

January 7, 2018

Train the team on Agile methodologies and practices

As part of agile transformation journey, the trainings will be extremely important. Since Agile is not a specific methodology, there is no single way to..

Agile

December 11, 2017

Adopt good branching strategy

The team need to collaborate and share code in a consistent manner; The distributed version control systems (like Git…) will provide flexibility on how team..

December 10, 2017

Hit Factor

Hit Factor is “The number of people in a team who have to be hit with a Truck/Bus (accident) before the project is in serious..

December 9, 2017

Three Amigos

The Three Amigos is not just a mediocre 1986 comedy, now it’s a practice to bring-up teams voices from business, development and testing, so they..

Agile

November 7, 2017

Essential Agile Metrics

A metric is a measure or a combination of measures for quantitatively assessing, controlling or improving a process and a product. Agile metrics for teams,..

Agile

October 9, 2017

Agile Team Patterns

When distributed team wants to adopt Agile practices, it’s become important to have and play the role of Agile lead to facilitator and mentor team...

Agile
Scrum

September 12, 2017

Proxy – Product Owner (business representative)

The product owner is key stakeholder in agile team, the part of responsibility to set a product vision and provides direction to build right product..

Agile

August 9, 2017

Agile Team Roles

First off, need to make sure that all those involved in the Agile project execution understand their roles and responsibilities. Role Key Responsibilities Agile Lead..

August 6, 2017

Build team of T-Shaped Skill set

T shaped skill set member is a person who has deep expertise on a specialty and has enough breadth of knowledge on the General/cross- subject...

Agile

July 14, 2017

Story Mapping

Story mapping is an effective inception tool which helps to create a visually structured tree, we know a Vision is achieved via goals. Goals are..

Agile

July 7, 2017

Agile in Dual-Track

Agile work model separates the effort to discover the best solution from the effort to deliver working software. It consists of two tracks of activity:..

July 7, 2017

Why “Agile” for Project Manager ?

Why “Agile” for Project Manager ? Evolution of Project Management Common activities of PM ( Traditional) Traditionally PM does many activities….overtime his/her focus went out..

May 9, 2017

Happiness Index – Way to measure

What is Team Happiness Index ? The Happiness Index used to visualize team’s emotions, which intern help teams and management to improve their happiness. The..

May 7, 2017

PopcornFlow Approach

POPCORN FLOW is a method created by Claudio Perrone, the idea is to create a flow of very small, very frequent changes using “POPCORN” Board..

Agile
DevOps

May 4, 2017

Metrics to measure in DevOps

There are many metrics we saw in a traditional world…most of them certainly no longer apply, when we on-boarding DevOps with new development life-cycle (Agile)...

April 8, 2017

Organizing Work space for distributed teams

To reap benefits of distributed agile – team needs diversity of workspace to support all forms of creative work: focus, collaborate, learn and socialize. During..