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CHOW #58– Setting Goals in a Cross Functional Team

Over the years Ram had been setting goals/ KPI for his team with ease. For the  development team, it would include lines of production code, # of defects that were detected by the test team; for his test team it would be # of in-process defects detected, # of...

CHOW #57– Help Shweta improve team collaboration

Shweta has taken up the role of the Scrum Master with the Wise-Eagles team. The team has one BA, three developers and two QA. The BA and developers are based in Bangalore and so is the SM, QA is based out of Hyderabad. The PO is in Ireland. The team had been...
Fungible Scrum Team Members

Fungible Scrum Team Members

I have often come across this question, especially from folks in organizations that have started adopting agile and have made some progress. Should each Scrum team member develop/possess all the skills required for the project? When hiring new team members should we...
5 Dimensions of Healthy Backlog

5 Dimensions of Healthy Backlog

One of the areas that I have seen Agile teams having difficulty is in maintaining a healthy backlog. The impact of not having a good backlog impacts many  activities for teams. Starting with ambiguity in terms of release planning – or planning ahead and...

CHOW #56– Help Vivian Manage Competing Priorities

Vivian was the Scrum master for team Condor, that was responsible for managing and enhancing the customer insights platform for an FMCG major. The newly formed ‘Digital Surround’ team under marketing was their main user department. They had very ambitious...