Getting ready for your FIRST SPRINT Definition of “Ready” When a Product Backlog item is described as “Ready”, everyone must understand what “Ready” means for your team. Scrum team members must have a shared understanding of what it means for work to be “Ready” and when we say ready it means ready to be planned…
The Scrum Team The Scrum Team consists of 3 roles a Product Owner, the Development Team, and a Scrum Master. Scrum Teams are self organising and cross-functional, the Development Team does not recognise more specific roles within it but Cross-functional teams have all the competencies needed to accomplish the work without depending on others that…
Scrum Theory Scrum is founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known at the time. Scrum employs an iterative, incremental approach to optimise predictability and control risk. Three pillars uphold every implementation of empirical process control: Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation….
Scrum Values When the values of Commitment, Courage, Focus, Openness and Respect are at the centre of everything you do within your Sprint and with your Scrum team, the Scrum Pillars of Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation come to life and begin to build trust for everyone around you including your peers and Stakeholders. The Scrum…
The Definition of SCRUM Scrum is a framework which allows people to address complex issues. Teams can keep their productivity high and their creativity flowing delivering fantastic products with the highest possible quality and value. Scrum is Lightweight, simple to get to grips with, but can be pretty hard to master at times. Scrum is…
Agile vs Waterfall As a Tester there is a big difference in your approach when it comes to using different SDLC methodologies. From my experience, the two that are often used are Agile and Waterfall. “One of the differences between agile software development methods and waterfall is the approach to quality and testing. In the…
