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CHOW #271: Lack of planning and Agile

CHOW 271: Lack of planning – Is Agile the reason?   Kavya is a new project manager in an MNC. The project was asked to run in an agile mode. As in most projects, the Backlog was not detailed and only high-level one-line requirements were available. Business...

CHOW 260: PO overpowering SM

Murugan joined an organization as a Scrum master. One of the teams that he was asked to coach has been in running mode at a fast pace for 2 months already. The team has been doing basic agile practices such as having a time-boxed work commitment, daily standup, and...
Agile and Cybersecurity – How to get started

Agile and Cybersecurity – How to get started

Most of us would have read about the recent ransomware hit on Colonial pipeline, one of the largest oil pipelines in the US. They had to temporarily halt all the operations, it impacted some of the company’s IT system and suffered a huge loss. It took almost a week to...

CHOW #248 – Sensitivity during these(covid) times

Harshita is a scrum master for a team. With the Covid situation across India, the team has been dull and in a very somber state. As a scrum master, she could understand and relate to the situation that the team has been going through. At an organization level, there...
Scrum Guide 2020 & how to get started with it

Scrum Guide 2020 & how to get started with it

Last week, Scrum celebrated 25 years, and to add to that celebration, a new scrum guide was released. Over the years, Scrum has been implemented across multiple industries and domains and the feedback of its success and failures flowed back into this new Scrum guide....
CHOW #199 – Creating Safe environment for your team

CHOW #199 – Creating Safe environment for your team

Payel is a Scrum master and has been coaching a team for almost three months. She has been able to implement agile practices and do it well, mostly. In Retrospective meetings, she was able to get people to talk about what went well and what did not go well. But most...