Reflections on Scrum and Kanban with Ranjith Venkatesh

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Limit Work in Progress | Kanban Practice

2021-12-2401:57

Are you a firefighter in your Scrum team? Are Product Backlog Items being pushed on you? Don't be a firefighter on your Scrum team, limit your work in progress and flow! Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Visualize workflow | Kanban Practice

2021-12-2302:48

Is your workflow visualized in a software tool online? Try visualizing the workflow to a physical board with post-its and see how Developers take ownership! Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Throughput | Kanban Flow Metric

2021-12-2201:18

Is Quantity more important than Quality? Throughput helps the Product Owner forecast the amount of value that can be delivered to the Stakeholders. Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Work Item Aging | Kanban Flow Metric

2021-12-2102:07

Is a User story not being cared for? Is a User story blocking the flow in the team? A filter for Work Item Aging (eg: 5 days in a 1 month Sprint) helps the Developers and Product Owner pay attention to those user stories that are clogging up the flow. Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Cycle Time | Kanban Flow Metric

2021-12-2001:56

Our SLA called for 4 hours resolution time! Our team managed to resolve with a cycle time of 2 hours!! We were mighty proud :) Do you know your team cycle time? Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Work in Progress | Kanban Flow Metric

2021-12-1902:03

Can you multitask and keep your Scrum Team and Product Owner happy? Not always, especially when things are undone and nobody is happy. A little bit of WIP to the rescue and get your Scrum Team to flow! Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Increment | Scrum Artifact

2021-12-1802:22

Do you have a DoD in your Scrum Team? Do you stick to your DoD come what may? A simple DoD rule of a Development team I was part of was that every piece of code had to have unit tests with full test coverage. Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Sprint Backlog | Scrum Artifact

2021-12-1702:10

Would you play football without goals? Fuzzy Sprint Goal: Enable the platform with social logins Measurable Sprint Goal: Enable the platform with a Google account login SMART criteria for a goal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Product Backlog | Scrum Artifact

2021-12-1602:01

Does a company run without a mission or vision? Should a Scrum Team take the time to create a Product Goal together? How does the Product Goal sets the direction for every single Product Backlog Item that is created and worked on! Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Sprint Retrospective | Scrum Event

2021-12-1502:58

CI for Developers CD for DevOps Continuous Improvement with the help of "Sprint Retrospectives" Useful links: https://www.funretrospectives.com/ https://miro.com/templates/retrospective/ Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Sprint Review | Scrum Event

2021-12-1403:00

Is your Sprint Review a looooooong PowerPoint presentation? How about balancing it with Live demos and a slide here and there? Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Sprint Planning | Scrum Event

2021-12-1303:12

Planning the "WHAT" and the "HOW" How we had a goal (WHAT) to upgrade 1000 users to a new version and managed to do it in Sprint by splitting it into well defined user stories(HOW) Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

The Sprint | Scrum Event

2021-12-1201:42

Just imagine, working on a long project over many years with no milestone! Just imagine, working on a long project with multiple milestones in the form of Sprints (one month of less) delivering value and continuous feedback!! Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Daily Scrum | Scrum Event

2021-12-1103:21

Have you attended a "Daily Scrum" once a week? I did. Here is our journey which which took our "Daily Scrum" from once a week to once a day (right before lunch). Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Product Owner | Scrum Role

2021-12-1003:01

"You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries, they only asked one question after a man died, ‘Did he have passion?'" - Serendipity How passion in a Product Owner can move mountains for a team! Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Developers | Scrum Role

2021-12-0905:05

Developers climbing a mountain together with a plan, pivoting in-between and reaching the summit! Developers mastering a Sprint together with a Sprint Backlog, pivoting in-between and reaching the Sprint Goal! Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Openness | Scrum Value

2021-12-0801:51

How do you feel when a project is stopped and it comes as a surprise? What if the Stakeholder and Scrum team are open with each other? Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Respect | Scrum Value

2021-12-0702:15

A little respect goes a long way! How the Scrum Master intervened and helped a team learn the value of respect. Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Commitment | Scrum Value

2021-12-0601:55

Thumbs up for the SMART Sprint GOAL! Do you reassess your Sprint GOAL when the Scrum Team does not commit? Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Courage | Scrum Value

2021-12-0501:40

Would you develop a feature that the customer does not need? Showing courage and gaining the trust of the stakeholder. Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh Company: Moss and Lichens Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

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Reflections on Scrum and Kanban with Ranjith Venkatesh