Scrum is a practical framework to build products, provided you identified in advance what to build. However, even after a successful product discovery phase, you may struggle to make the right thing in the right way if your product backlog is not up to the job. Garbage in, garbage out — as the saying goes.

Managing the product backlog is a full-time and continuous evolution. In this session, we will share Simple techniques that can help change what can be an overwhelming, time-consuming process to an interactive, iterative process that effectively engages team members, customers, and stakeholders. It is essential, therefore, to learn solid techniques to help you build, prioritize, and maintain your product backlog.

Retrospective is the heart of scrum and agile world. We need to ensure this heart is well connected to other parts and functioning well. Getting the right amount of inputs and making sure with the right outcomes. This workshop will be an eye opener to understand anti patterns of retrospective. It will be more of a hands-on exercise for all the attendees based on our experiments which we have conducted got benefited. Will help to practice an effective retrospective which enables the team to seize opportunities to improve. Retrospectives can become monotonous and boring over time and so they become ineffective. We need to bring something new, fun, or exciting to the retrospective to make it lively.

This workshop will lead a way as a food for thought for scrum practitioners. Why it is important to ensure that each team member is comfortable participating and sharing thoughts and ideas requires that the Retrospective be conducted with an atmosphere of respect, honesty and positivity. Retro facilitator who contributes structure and process to a Retrospective to help the Scrum Team identify and bring about an outcome that is consistent with the Team’s objectives.

Will also cover the aspect as how a Retrospective lacking a Facilitator will suffer problems similar to a team-based sporting event lacking a referee. Retrospective should be facilitated in a healthy and fun way, team level engagement should be taken on priority. Retro outcome apart from the action items team should look forward to participate and leave a mark.

Successful retrospection responsibility who ensure, is it team or scrum master or both? Together teams need to think outside the box when approaching Sprint Retrospectives and appreciate that these short gatherings need not to be done only by using the usual techniques or methods. Instead they can bring their own ingenuity, knowledge, and experiences to the table to create games or to start meaningful discussions that the team drives.

Product quality plays a key strategic role in any organization success. Organizations have tried and tested many tools, techniques, methodologies or mechanisms to achieve best possible quality while trying to meet time to market demands. Agile methods have gained prominent attention of CXO as a strategic piece for IT and Business alignment. Many organizations have embraced agile journey in recent years and have reported noticeable improvement in product quality, customer satisfaction, early value delivery (Time to market) and increased people engagement at workplace.

One of the magical factor driving product quality improvement in Agile Scrum is Definition of Done( DoD). A well thought and implemented DoD keeping Tech Debt as a reference would result in significant improvement of Product Quality.
This paper provides summary of our experience of implementation of DoD, Tech Debt reduction strategy and magnificent results we observed in an enterprise level large complex legacy system.

However exhaustive and meticulous your current employee appraisal process is, chances are you aren't pleased with the outcome. The primary objective of a performance appraisal is performance improvement, starting with the individual and rolling up to the organizational level. But an individual who doesn't fare well in an appraisal feels demotivated, defeating the purpose of the exercise.

Agile owes its success and failure to its team.

A lot been discussed on different agile groups related to performing the appraisal of team members when success / failure belongs to team.

This is an Attempt to provide solution to appraising scrum team members remaining in agile framework and philosophy.

We would be discussing The Challenges of current appraising process along with the Challenges brought up with adopting agile process.

To address these challenges we would be sharing 'The proposed solution' and it's alignment with agile philosophy.