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Transition Steps - Waterfall model to Agile(Scrum) model

  Transition Steps - Waterfall model to Agile(Scrum) model   Identify and orient the transformation program team Determine the program charter for transformation team Create Organizational Scrum guide Identify impacts from Organizational culture/values/management style Assess top down working style Bottom up engineering practices evaluation IT Infrastructure evaluation to meet Dev Ops needs and gap analysis Decision on pilot approach Vs Bing bang approach Communication plan for ‘Why change’ from Execs, Q&A with teams to the team Create change agents team Identify existing areas of ‘process waste’ and create plan to eliminate it Set transformation program obstacle handling mechanism Dev Ops and test automation investment plan Change management plan Identify the teams based on release dependencies, upcoming customer commitments, technology landscape etc. Review the program plan, approach, scrum guide and study findings with Exec team for project...

Continuous Delivery and Agile Principles

  Continuous Delivery and Agile Principles our  highest priority is to satisfy customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software is the 1st agile principle. Let us evaluate how important this agile principle is. What are the benefits of adhering to this principle? If you want to de-risk as a service delivery team or as a customer to overcome business risks and build upon customer satisfaction, it is important to adhere to this principle as a delivery organization or as a customer. Continuous delivery of user stories with INVEST characteristics helps both customer and delivery team to be successful. When there is consistent and focused flow of information and deliverables across the requirement elicitation to software delivery, and then feedback on delivered software from customer back to the team, delivery team and customer are on a mission to meet customer’s business needs in the given environment. Continuous delivery helps team and customer to...

Agility in Education Sector

                                                                  Agility in Education Sector Now is the time for Education sector to embrace agility to expand the learning horizon for students. Manifesto for Agile Software Development is as folliwng (AgileManifesto.org © )   We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.Through this work we have come to value:  Individuals and interactions over processes and tools  Working software over comprehensive documentation  Customer collaboration over contract negotiation  Responding to change over following a plan That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.  We could connect the agile manifesto to today’s education to develo...