I am a certified Scrum Master and a Certified Product Owner, currently working as a consultant at Concepts and Beyond. I facilitate workshops for Certified Scrum Masters (CSMs) and Certified Scrum Product Owners (CSPOs). Being an agile enthusiast and working in self-organized teams helped me learn how to increase productivity, remotely work and still maintain effective communication. My daily life revolves around Agile, which I highly recommend!
Most of the case studies we discussed went through how companies effectively use scrum to develop products. This case study is particularly exciting since a student team called “Blue Flash” used Scrum and Kanban to build a race car for the annual international competition. Blue Flash Mobility Concepts is part of… Read More »How Scrum and Kanban Helped Formula Student Team Design a Race Car?
Microprocessor giant Intel was using a Test Program which runs on Automated Test Equipment (ATE). It has a proprietary operating system and interface languages that prevent Intel from using industry-standard off-the-shelf software validation solutions. In essence, Intel was working in a proprietary language environment with no off-the-shelf unit test framework… Read More »How Microprocessor giant, Intel used Scrum in their engineering development?
This is the story of how Unilever was able to deliver hand sanitizers to the market faster than expected using agile. With the goal of delivering value to the customer quickly, agility involves quick iteration, continuous communication. Moreover, it involves problem-solving, taking accountability, and adjusting to new circumstances. This method challenges… Read More »How Agile helped Unilever deliver hand sanitizers faster during Covid-19
Dutch Railways had a problem building a travel information system for 1.2 million passengers daily. Let’s look at a case study and how scrum helped resolve the issue. Introduction: Teams and organizations newly introduced to the Scrum framework may have questions such as Is it better to outsource the project… Read More »Distributed Scrum Project for Dutch Railways
Value Stream Mapping A company was having challenges with recruiting. It was hard to recruit good people and when they did, they had a huge wait between the offer letter to when the new hire could start with the company. Many times, they would lose someone they hired because some… Read More »Value Stream Mapping
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Do you know your DevOps? 8 expert videos that amaze DevOps does not have a single source of knowledge unlike other IT frameworks. It is being built on the collective experiences and insights of multiple thought leaders and resources including conferences, books, articles, webinars, videos and enterprise. Our goal is… Read More »Do you know your DevOps? 8 expert videos that amaze
Facilitation Techniques Facilitation is the art of being a neutral third party having no substantive decision-making authority and helping a group increase its effectiveness and decision-making process. In the game of Scrum, Facilitation is explicitly required in the events of Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective, but you can… Read More »Facilitation Techniques
Coaching With Powerful Questions By asking the powerful questions, the coach invites you to clarity, action, and discovery at a whole new level. “The real aim with powerful questions are that the answers will help the client to move forward”. These generally are open-ended questions that create greater possibility for… Read More »Coaching With Powerful Questions
8 Expert Videos for a DevOps Practitioner As a DevOps practitioner we are always looking for expert tips. Here are 8 videos that take you through the concepts and success stories of the pillars necessary to adopt DevOps in your organization Continuous Delivery Concepts “Architecting for Continuous Delivery” with Jez… Read More »8 Expert Videos for a DevOps Practitioner