A PM Power framework for increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of Scrum using AI systems like ChatGPT
Agile is a software development approach that has become very popular of late. Agile emphasizes flexibility, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Scrum, based on Agile values, principles and practices, is one of the most-used project management frameworks for Agile-based development. The Scrum framework has four dimensions to it. 1. An incoming prioritized backlog of user requirements […]
CHOW #126 – Mystery of Disappearing ‘Issues’
SuperSeven was a great team and had been performing consistently last year. But during last couple of quarters they seemed to have some new challenges and Ajay, the Scrum Master, approached me for help. I went through some retrospective notes and saw their velocity chart etc. What I observed was that some points were repeated […]
Agility in Mainframe technology based products
In one of the recent conversations I had with an Agile practitioner, he was talking to me about his experiences of Agile practices in Mainframe teams. He mentioned that they were following a 2-month long sprint cycle and within every sprint, they were developing and delivering valuable content. One of the key questions that came […]
CHOW #21- How to show visible improvement in Agile?
Jessica started a project as scrum master with a team of 9 members that include 6 developers, 1 business analyst and 2 quality analysts. The team runs bi-weely sprints. At the end of 8th sprint, she had a review meeting with Mithali, her Delivery Manager. Mithali pointed out that there are no visible improvements on the […]
CHOW #15- “Tell them to behave” – A scrum master problem
You are a scrum master and you find that your team does not attend the daily stand-up on time and you also find that most of the team members do not update their tasks in the iteration tracker. Burn-down is never up to date. You see this as a culture issue and would like to […]
