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How to Foster Creativity and Innovation in Your Team

Author: arasharabiOn: Oct 26Categories: Business No Comments

How to Foster Creativity and Innovation in Your Team

Every leader’s dream is to have a team that is proactive, innovative, and creative. These teams are more likely to come up with new ideas, solve problems more effectively, and achieve better results. There are many things that leaders can do to...

Why you can’t change your company’s culture!

Author: arasharabiOn: Dec 14Categories: Agile No Comments

Why you can’t change your company’s culture!

Agile

In 2018 there was a major scandal in Australia involving Victoria state police faking breathalyser results. The police apparently had quotas to fill which motivated officers to blow into breathalysers themselves multiple times to meet the quotas. Over...

2 ways to boost your agility and adaptability

Author: arasharabiOn: Dec 07Categories: Agile No Comments

2 ways to boost your agility and adaptability

Agile

Adaptability is defined as one’s ability to adjust to new conditions. Adaptability can manifest itself in different ways. On short timescales an adaptable person can context switch quickly and easily. On long timescales an adaptable person can change...

What is an MVP and how can you use it to make effective decisions when faced with uncertainty?

Author: arasharabiOn: Oct 13Categories: Agile No Comments

What is an MVP and how can you use it to make effective decisions when faced with uncertainty?

Agile

One of the most popular and effective product development methods these days is the Lean Startup Method. The Lean Startup method is an empirical product development technique developed by Eric Ries and has gained a lot of popularity among successful entrepreneurs....

How to become an Agile Coach

Author: arasharabiOn: Oct 02Categories: Agile No Comments

How to become an Agile Coach

Agile

Well… the position “Agile Coach” is the new hip in town. It’s cool, it’s hot, it’s trendy. It’s fun work, it’s classy, it’s hipster. Recently a lot of people have expressed interest to me in getting into agile coaching. So I decided...

The Scrum Framework: You are doing it wrong!

Author: arasharabiOn: Feb 20Categories: Agile No Comments

The Scrum Framework: You are doing it wrong!

Agile

How should we implement Scrum? What are various roles and ceremonies of Scrum? What is Scrum Methodology? What meetings are required by Scrum? Scrum is the most popular Agile Framework. Almost every software development team in the world is using some...

Comparison of popular Agile certificates. What is the best Agile certificate?

Author: arasharabiOn: Feb 10Categories: Agile No Comments

Comparison of popular Agile certificates. What is the best Agile certificate?

Agile

Which Agile certificate is right for me? Should I get Scrum Master Certificate? What is the difference of Scrum Alliance and SAFe certificates? What is the difference of various Agile and Scrum certificates?

Roles, artefacts, and ceremonies of Scaled Agile Framework in a nutshell

Author: arasharabiOn: Jan 25Categories: Agile No Comments

Roles, artefacts, and ceremonies of Scaled Agile Framework in a nutshell

Agile

What are the roles and responsibilities defined by SAFe Agile? What is the list of meetings in Scaled Agile Framework? What are some of the artefacts produced or delivered by various levels of SAFe? What ceremonies various agile teams do in SAFe? Scaled...

How to succeed with distributed Agile

Author: arasharabiOn: Dec 09Categories: Agile No Comments

How to succeed with distributed Agile

Agile

Can your Scrum team be geographically distributed? What are the challenges of offshoring and outsourcing in Agile environments? How can you benefit from agile when your squads are geographically distributed? How can we implement agile frameworks in multi-vendor...

The role of Project manager in Agile software development

Author: arasharabiOn: Nov 25Categories: project management No Comments

The role of Project manager in Agile software development

project management

Are we approaching an era where there is no more a place for project managers in the software development life cycle? Is agile project manager an oxymoron? Why don’t we have project managers in Scrum? With the popularisation of Lean and Agile based...