Why Scrum Projects Fail?… and how to solve it?

Having discussed about the importance of project management processes in Agile Scrum in my previous blog, let us now look at the reasons why Scrum projects fail and then we shall look at the approach to solve these problems to help achieve successful Agile Scrum projects. Re-iterating some key points on Agile Scrum… We now …

5 Agile Myths Clarified

Having discussed about the importance of project management processes in Agile Scrum in my previous blog, let us look at 5 key Agile myths due to which scrum projects fail. As discussed earlier, for many who are implementing Agile, they feel as if they have found a panacea to all project related problems. It seems …

Agile or Waterfall? Criteria demystified…

One of the major concerns across many organisations is whether to go for Agile or Waterfall methodology. Most of the project managers higher up in the corporate ladder have to take this decision. And this becomes more difficult when one has the pressure to deliver a successful project at the end. Thankfully, there are certain …

Is your Agile project focused on delivering the right value?

You may be focused on your Agile processes, tools and techniques. But, all this may not be delivering the right value to the customer. At the end of the day, it’s the customer who has to be benefit from the deliveries made through iterations and Release delivery. If we re-look at the traditional Iron triangle, …

Agile methodologies: demystified

All Agile methodologies mostly share the same philosophy expressed in the Agile manifesto, but they differ in terms of the practices, processes and techniques. The Agile Manifesto was signed on Feb 2001 by 17 leading software developers, where the idea is to uncover better ways of developing software through execution and helping or enabling others …

Having ‘Mini-waterfalls’ in your Sprints? Fine tune your Team Collaboration

You have completed a few Sprint cycles in the past 5 months, in your project execution to deliver a project or a product. Your features are almost 50% complete. You have yet another 5 sprints to go. Your sprint cycles are of 1 month each. The team is at the peak of its performance. However …

How to manage Project Governance

Project Governance provides the project team with the overall structure, processes and tools that help the team to deliver the project successfully. Though it may look similar to an organizational governance, but is distinct in the sense that it aligns with the overall organizational governance to help provide governance to the projects to help ensure …

How to benefit from a Sprint Retrospective meeting

Image by Ronald Carreño from Pixabay Link to the summarized video presentation:  You just completed a sprint and you as a program/project manager know that there is a lot that can be learnt from the just completed sprint. That’s were a retrospective meeting helps. If you are clueless about how to do a retrospective, here are some tips …

Influence of Organisation Type on the Project

How a project is managed depends a lot on how much control a project manager has on the project and that relates with the type of Organisation in which the project manager is working.  There are different types of Organisations, namely: 1) Functional Organisation: In this kind of Organisation, the project team members report to …

Top 5 Reasons why we need Project Management Processes

We all follow Project Management processes in our projects. Mostly, they are tailored to meet the requirements of the project. Some projects need tighter control and more stringent processes that might have been mandated in the contract, while some need processes sufficient to self manage and execute the project to meet the deadlines and quality …