Agile World

Recently completed 2 speaking events, one in Bangalore and the other in Hyderabad. The event was sponsored by ITGrids in alliance with Agil...

I have been observing an Agile adoption trend/pattern in offshore companies (read it as India). The offshore companies are mostly into softs...

Many thought leaders have recommended organizations to follow "team performance ratings" rather than "Individual performance...

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Metrics seems to be the part and parcel of any software development project. In typical waterfall development projects, different types o...

Project perfect team recently published my article on pros and cons of open office space on their blog. You can find the article here

Recently I witnessed a good deal of discussion about the "best" way to arrange seats in software companies to improve productivity...

Here are some tidbits "Kanban", the Japanese word translates to "signboard" Taiichi Ohno developed Kanban T...

Before I begin my Agile training programs, I provide an opportunity for the participants to share their understanding about Agile. Most com...

I am a big fan of Gerald Weinberg ,and recently in an interview on Citerus , he has made some encouraging remarks about Agile. Thought wou...

Decision Market a.k.a prediction Market  is one of the techniques being used by many universities, governments, research institutes, finanac...

Words like Incremental, Iterative are quite often used in an Agile environment. In most cases Incremental and Iterative are used interchange...

Nowadays a lot of companies/software developers wants to get Certified Scrum Master(CSM) certifications. I don't understand why they are...

Many a times Scrum meetings starts becoming boring and if you are one of them, who feel Scrum meetings look like micro management or merely ...

I have been reading the book World is flat , since the last few weeks. In this book Thomas L. Friedman , argues the importance of outsourcin...

The day comes when suddenly somebody in the organization starts talking about Agile, and decides to implement Agile . This senior person who...

Here is an article by Scott Ambler who explores the ethical implications of "fixed iron triangle". The article explores why many ...

Most of the time we talk about how to succeed in anything and give a lot of tips and best practices to others. How many of us do really reme...

I am sure you would agree that we use the above statement atleast couple of times a day, especially if you are a project manager in one of t...

The first value of Agile Manifesto clearly says, "Individuals and Interactions over Process and tools". Does this mean that usage...