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T-Shaped Skills: A self-assessment of a Scrum Team

November 25, 2018 Raj Kasturi Leave a comment

One of the major organizational design change implied by implementing Scrum is the elimination of single-function groups. Traditionally, in a…

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Posted in: Observations from my Agile Pod, Uncategorized Filed under: cross-functional, scrum, T-Shaped

Measuring the success of agile – Should we focus on the outcomes or outputs?

September 18, 2018 Raj Kasturi Leave a comment

The dictionary meaning of outcome is ‘the way a thing turns out; a consequence’ and the meaning of output is…

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Posted in: Observations from my Agile Pod, Uncategorized Filed under: agile, metrics, Outcome, Output

Scrum “Tree”

May 16, 2018 Raj Kasturi Leave a comment

The tree in the picture shows Scrum’s relationship to the agile manifesto. The principles behind the agile manifesto support agile…

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The Development Team –DOPAMINE, a Mnemonic

December 26, 2017 Raj Kasturi Leave a comment

What is Dopamine? Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps control the brain‘s reward and pleasure centers. Dopamine also helps regulate movement and…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: scrum, The Development Team

The Product Owner Role

November 30, 2017 Raj Kasturi Leave a comment

The Product Owner is a key member of the Scrum Team who has the authority to make the necessary decisions…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: PO, Product Owner

Sprint Backlog

November 21, 2017 Raj Kasturi Leave a comment

Sprint backlog is a forecast of the functionality that will be built by the Development Team. It is one of…

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Product Backlog Refinement

November 9, 2017 Raj Kasturi Leave a comment

In my previous blogpost, I talked about the Product Backlog, it’s attributes and what constitutes a good product backlog.  As…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Product Backlog, Product Backlog Refinement, scrum

The Product Backlog

November 2, 2017 Raj Kasturi Leave a comment

Product backlog is an ordered and emerging list of everything that may be needed for the Product. Product backlog is…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Product Backlog, Product Backlog Refinement, scrum

Sprint Retrospective- Inspect, adapt opportunities

October 20, 2017 Raj Kasturi Leave a comment

Sprint retrospective provides opportunities to identify improvements for the team to improve from a process and people perspective. It is…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: adapt, inspect, Sprint Retrospective

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