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The Sprint Review is a formal Scrum event where the Scrum Team and stakeholders come together to review and evaluate the outcome of the Sprint. During this meeting, the team and stakeholders collaboratively decide on the next steps for the product. Each Scrum Master has their own approach to conducting Sprint Review meetings, and over...
The Sprint Retrospective is like a team’s reflection session. Like any other Scrum ceremony, retrospective plays a purposeful role in overall team dynamics and to maximise customer value, but is often neglected. It is taken with a casual attitude of skipping it altogether and moving on to the next sprint which leads to the same...
What is a Sprint As described in the Scrum Guide, Sprints are the heartbeat of Scrum, where ideas are turned into value. They are fixed length events of one month or less to create consistency. A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint. As a best practice, Sprint should include: Sprint...
What is a Product Backlog? Product backlog consists of desired product functionalities that provide a centralized and shared understanding of what to build and the order in which to build it. Consider it as a medium of creating transparency and roadmap across the board. The Product Backlog contains Product Backlog Items or PBIs which...
Let's first understand what is a Sprint Retrospective. Sprint Retrospective is one of the agile ceremonies that is conducted on the last day of the sprint and is focused on examining the performance and improvement areas more at a process level. If you are following sprints of longer duration say of a month, try to split the sprint...
More and more product companies are making a shift from their traditional way of working by embracing new-age digital technologies. This is mainly because they want to remain competitive and reach out to market faster than their competitors. While adapting to digital technologies, these companies are also leveraging Agile methods and...
Outsourced software development has increased in the recent years. Companies have multiple benefits by outsourcing their product development needs to offshore delivery center or a remote development partner. The two main benefits are cost advantage and technology skillset. Most of these projects have teams that are geographically...
Understanding product features play a paramount role in software product development. Ultimately, delivering these features according to the expectations create a superior recall and experience. With more and more product companies now practicing Agile, it is important for them to understand requirements clearly from all the concerned...
We have seen a drastic increase in the number of products being launched in the recent past. Young startups are disrupting the product ecosystem with cool and innovative products that are developed to resolve multiple problems faced by different customer groups. These companies are leveraging multiple digital technologies such as machine...
Product companies and ISVs race to keep up with the evolving technology landscape. There are multiple new business opportunities for product companies, but they are unable to leverage on all due to challenges such as achieving faster time to market, engineering web and mobile products for the cloud, providing elegant user experience and...