It was not an easy decision – specially when you spend a major part of your life building a company, when your boss becomes not only your friend but also your life mentor, and when you realize that you have a brotherly bond with your colleagues which you never really planned for. But it had to happen one day, and for …

Sharing some quotes from the book which I found interesting: Agile Coaching When a company is in the middle of a reorganization, then people are more focused on keeping their jobs rather than becoming Agile. We would advise against coaching while this is going on because the pressure on the team will be too …

It may be ideal to have your Scrum team focus on a single story first, complete it with compliance of their definition of done, and then move on to the next story, but in practice we are yet to achieve it. What we have found works best for us is we work like small surgical teams where one developer is assigned the …

You ask the team what’s most important for the product, plan your sprint accordingly, write down the stories and start your sprint! In an idle world, you are suppose to have your prioritized product backlog ready before your sprint planning meeting. But it may happen that you have a lousy product owner who forgets to …