Showing posts with label Scrum board. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scrum board. Show all posts

Monday 27 January 2014

An Overview Regarding Scrum Methodology

An introduction to Scrum methodology

For majority of the software developers, Agile methodology does not require any prior introduction. It is widely known that Agile is a comparatively new addition in the field of project management, and was primarily developed to overcome the drawbacks offered by traditional developmental methodologies such as the Waterfall method, which included a linear approach while executing projects. Typically, traditional methods support a top-to-bottom approach of segregating the entire project into main development activities, and tackling them one after another in a sequential method. The Scrum methodology offers a more flexible and dynamic approach of splitting up the entire project into individually executable project parts known as “Sprints”. Each sprint is processed or developed by many team members, who put in efforts to develop an entirely finished and shippable product at the end of the particular sprint. The main advantage of the Scrum methodology is that it increases the interaction between the “Product owner” and the team members. Increased client participation (or the Product Owner) leads to enhanced development experience, an advantage that is uniquely offered by Scrum and not other development methodologies. Another advantage offered by Scrum is the highly reduced turnaround time. Each sprint may typically last from one to four weeks, at the end of which a shippable product is delivered. The client is made aware about the development carried out at the end of the sprint by the team members. In many cases, the client can assume the role of the product owner and brief the scrum master regarding the development required. Typically, the sprints are numbered from zero, and proceed as “Sprint 1”, “Sprint 2”, etc. The client can determine the cost effectiveness of each sprint.Know more on http://blog.quickscrum.com/post/2014/01/23/An-Overview-Regarding-Scrum-Methodology.aspx 




The Origin And Key Principles Of Scrum

Origin of scrum

The terminology "Scrum" was initially introduced by Takeuchi and Nonaka in 1986, in a study paper published in the Harvard Business Review. The paper explained that projects should ideally use small, cross functional teams having complete autonomy in whatever they do, and the teams were supposed to deliver a completely finished and shippable product at the end of the development cycle. In case the product cannot be completed at the end of the development cycle, it could be further extended in the form of another “sprint”. Each development cycle is known as a “sprint”, and typically lasts for two weeks to four weeks. This particular development methodology leads to highly reduced turnaround times, and increased productivity. The main advantage of the methodology is that it delivers a completely shippable product at the end of the development cycle, and the development activity takes very little time. This can lead to increased ROI and reduced overheads since redundant requirements or development activities can be curtailed well in time, and replaced by newer and far more important ones in their place. The word “Scrum” is actually derived from the scrum used in rugby football in which the game is restarted again with new or fresh objectives after it undergoes a minor infraction. The game is “reset” to run again with more effective and meaningful objectives after it experiences a setback. That is exactly what happens while using Scrum methodology. Development is carried out in short sprints, at the end of which the results are evaluated, and if required the sprint is extended with the same or newer aims and objectives.Know more on http://blog.quickscrum.com/post/2014/01/23/The-Origin-And-Key-Principles-Of-Scrum.aspx     

Friday 20 September 2013

Three important part of Scrum Project Management

In the Free Scrum Tool, These three are very important part
·         The Product Owner
·         The Team
·         The Scrum Master



1. The Product Owner: - In the Scrum Methodology, The Product owner is part of Scrum Process. The Product Owner watches the development in the view of customers. The Product owner is input to successfully starting any development. The Product owner does this in piece through Scrum Backlog Tool. At least one person is allocating the role of Product owner in every project.

2. The Team: - The size of the project, of course, is handling by team. Team are group of women and men who do work mutually to finish the final product. In Agile Methodologies, there are four to nine persons in any team. Team are typically not assigned to one task only.
Team must perfectly have abilities of cross functional, so that work is actually combined. In the team no one is boss. All members acknowledge their own strength and weakness and
Work collectively as a solid whole.

3. The Scrum Master: - The Scrum master is not boss of team. The Scrum Master arranges the method for how information is exchanged. A Scrum master is the direct for a Scrum Project Management group that uses Open Source Scrum tool, a rugby similarity for an improvement methodology that allows a team to self organize and make changes.

In the Scrum Planning Tools, People work together to achieve common goal. In the scrum when one member falter than rest member follow.


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Thursday 12 September 2013

What are Differences and Similarities between Kanban and Scrum?

 There are some Similarities between Kanban and Scrum


1.  Prioritization of the Goal: - In both methods Kanban and Scrum Process  achieving goal is main Purpose of method .Both method give main Priority to make final product.


2. Fast and Pure Development:- The Main purpose of   both method Kanban and Scrum Methodology is make quick and pure development .Pure development means at deployment time no one change will come from client side.

 3.Transparency Between all team members:- Transparency means no one thing is hidden between all team members regarding development. All matter is display into Open Source Scrum tool like quickscrum.com.

Open Source Agile tool


There are some Differences between Kanban and Scrum


1. Kanban based on Process of Development as an ongoing flow while Scrum is based on iteration.
2. In Scrum Team give commitment to how many work completed in this Sprint is called Scrum Sprint, in kanban not any commitment.
3.  Scrum decide estimation time, Kanban not decide any estimate time.
4.  Scrum required cross functionality of team, Kanban required time to market.






Thursday 5 September 2013

What is Difference between Scrum and Waterfall Methodology?


      Now a Day lots of Model available for Development .But generally most of people in development field use Scrum and Waterfall model for development .If new people come in Developing field, One question is always arias in his mind, What is difference between Scrum and waterfall methodology? And which is best for Today development?
Waterfall is an old traditional method for development that was thought in School and Collages .In the waterfall model; we define stage for development that will be run from Initial to end process. There are following step by step process in waterfall model.



1. Requirement Analysis

2. System Design

3. Implementation

4.Testing

5.Deployment

6.Maintenance

Scrum Methodology is a concept for Quick and pure development cycle. There are Some basic step of Agile Methodologies

                        

1. Project initiation 


3.Daily Scrum

4.Print Retrospective

5. Demo

6. Deployment



There are some Basic Difference between waterfall and Scrum Process


                   -          Waterfall uses Stage when Scrum uses iterations
                   -          Waterfall  job such as Project Manager when Scrum has a Scrum Master
                   -          In waterfall we cannot go back at Previous step when we do this in Scrum
                   -          Developer do not interact with product owner during every stage when in scrum developer                                                 always connect with product owner.
Using Upper understanding Scrum is a best Process for Development Life cycle.





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Thursday 29 August 2013

Introduction About Basic Terms of Online open source Scrum Tool

     1.     Open Source Scrum Tool:-  Scrum Tool is a Opensource Project management too with rich                    graphical interface for agile project development with scrum methodology that provides                        product backlog , Sprint management, Dashboard, Task board, Burndown chart and  much                    more.           

2.     Product  Backlog:-  The Scrum Backlog Tool is a prioritized quality list which has little description of all functionality of product. Basically Scrum group and its product owner begin by inserting everything they can think of for agile backlog prioritization.The Scrum backlog is then allowed to produce and modify as many is learned about the project and also its customer.
           There are three types of item in Product Backlog
1.     Bugs
2.     Features
3.     Technical work
4.     Knowledge gaining

3.     Sprint Management:-   A  Sprint management is a Decided Time period which exact task has to be finished and completed ready for check.
           Every Sprint start with a Scrum Sprint Planning meeting. At that time The person requesting the            work called  product owner and Team of development upon the same opinion what task will be            completed during the sprint.After this Development team give his opinion and the project owner            has final decide on what criteria need to be met for work to be received.The person who decide            duration of sprint is called Scrum Master


4.     Dashboard:-  Agile Dashboard is a openly and practical available for Product development online. A Scrum Dashboard was basically planned to handle progress for agile product, But this term is used very broadly. Agile Dashboard allow us to describe status of our work which is to do, in working and Completed.

5.     Task Board:-   Task Board is a basic part of Scrum Process. Scrum Task board Consists of Colums and rows. Each row is a use account which function as a element of task that uses by Scrum team for product backlog. Works are stored on colored cards.Group members fill in the task board regularly , Mostly when Daily Scrum meeting arrange based on the progress since the last update.If new task come , it is written on a new placed on the task board.In every day Scrum meeting ,  Changes are made and card are moved in Task board.The colums we use on Scrum task board are to do, Working , Verify and Completed.

6.     Burndown chart:-  A Scrum Burndown Chart is a Diagramatically representation of task left to do vs. Time period.  The Scrum backlog is every time on the X-axis means horizontal. Burndown chart is a run chart backlog .It is useful for calculate when all work will done.MDSTVBAMAVNR

Friday 23 August 2013

How to Select Best Agile Tool for Your Organization?

Now A day , All Organizations and Companies want to develop  fast and pure Product and Project, And for Fast and pure development 72%  Software Companies in the worldwide use Online Scrum and Agile tool for Project Management .

Now a day , Many Agile and Scrum tools available on Internet , Some are Free and some are paid . Some time companies make mistake to Choose Best Free Scrum Tool  for his Company ,so all companies aries one Question in their mind , Which Agile tool is best for our Organization ? and How to select Best Scrum tools for Our organization ?
Open Source Scrum tool
http://www.quickscrum.com

If you want to Select Agile tool for your organization, You may follow step by step process.

          1.       First of all Understand the Infrastructure of Company.
          2.       Understand Current need and Future Requirement.
          3.       Select tool which best suit for team.
          4.       Short list Suitable Scrum Tools.
          5.       Implement Trial  Version of Suitable Scrum Tool.
          6.       After this Select Best Open SourceScrum tool For your Organization.


In an Agile Tool, Sprint, Backlog Tool, Scrum Burndown Chart  is quite Important parts.An Scrum Tool is Best as the process it services and the persons using it.After Follow complete step and selected Scrum tool  must have ability to handle thousands of defects.






Friday 16 August 2013

Inventor of Scrum Methodology-Jeff Sutherland

Inventor of Scrum Methodology Jeff Sutherland –The discoverer of Scrum. He was started his job as a Air force pilot in the United State. Air force where he got Top Gun status in 1967 and also flew missions over North Vietnam. Jeff Sutherland’s last tour of responsibility was at Stanford University where he got a M.S. in Statistics and the United States Air force Academy where he taught Statics, Probability and Mathematics.

After Completed job as a pilot in United state air force , Jeff Sutherland joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Medical School and He got his Doctorate degree in University of Colorado Medical  School as Assistance Professor of Radiology , Bio metrics and Preventive Medicine .


He join founder of Cancer Research and The Center for Vitamins under support of Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling and Became Principle researcher of a National Cancer Center for eight years.At that time , he Concerned data file on every cancel patients in Colorado and integration with a national registry, epidemiological studies and research on Super Computer mathematical model of carcinogenics.

After Getting Doctorate degree , In 1983 He joined a banking company that operated 150 banks at North America and He was become VP of higher Systems and General Manager of Their ATM unit.
He has been Chief Technical Officer of 11 Software development Companies. In the Opening 4 Software companies , he introduced Scrum and in the 5th company made Scrum as we know Today. Jeff Sutherland’s initial aim was the Success of Scrum .

Jeff Sutherland achieved his Goal. Now a day 72% Companies user Agile Scrum method for Development in 92 countries. Jeff Sutherland also want to replace general project management with  Agile Methodology over world to make work Pure and fast for Developers and revenue growth easily achievable for management.

Finally In 2006, Jeff Started his own company named Scrum Inc.Now recognized as the debut source of Scrum Training in the worldwide. He is also lead of Scrum Foundation Adviser and Agile Coach to open view course Partners.




Tuesday 6 August 2013

History of Scrum and Its requirement in today

Basically Scrum concept come from rugby football ,a Scrum refers  to the way of restart  the game after the small defect.

Using This concept In 1986, Scrum was defined by Hirotaka Takeuchi and lkujiro Nonaka in New Product Development Game. At that time Scrum was a flexible product development strategy where a development group work as a part to achieve aim as different to a general method of development.

After 1989, in 1990, Ken Schwaber , Jeff Sutherland , John Scumniotales and Jeff Mackenna were introduced   advanced development technique , Scrum Methodology in their development company at Easel Corporation .
Free Scrum Tool
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In 1995, Sutherland and Schwaber were Become first Scrum master.They jointly presented a paper describing the Scrum process at the project development and insert workshop held as part of Oops concept, Systems and application  in Austin, Texas ,It was first time when Scrum presented in Public . At that time, Sutherland and Schwaber were writing something about their experiences and industry best practice into what is now known as Scrum.

In2001, Schwaber joined with Mike Beadle to explain the method in the book Agile Software development with Scrum.

After this , Many Companies use this process have been known to write it with capital letters as SCRUM.This may be due to one of ken Schwaber’s papers, which capitalized SCRUM in the title.       7th State of Agile Development Survey  was conducted between August 9th  and November  1st ,2012. According to this Survey, Scrum is still the very famous Agile methodologies used. Out of 4,049 software developers that responded, 72% are practicing scrum.

Now a day, Most of Development Companies use Scrum Process for Develop Pure and Fast Development. Today Many Scrum tools Available on the internet like Scrum.org, Quickscrum.com and Many.This tools help us for Project management .

Before Scrum method, In software company was use waterfall model and in this model , They loss Many time and money .After losing time and money, Software Company was not Develop pure product.


In Short , Scrum and Agile tools Become a best option for Project management and Product development.






Thursday 1 August 2013

Bharti Consulting Services SARL, France announces to launch opensource scrum tool by 31st November 2013,

Paris, France  01/08/2013

Bharti Consulting Services SARL, France  announces to launch Opensource scrum tool named as QuickScrum.  Quickscrum Provides all funtionalities related to scrum project management.. You will be able to download tool from our website or directly use it online (SaaS) at http://www.quickscrum.com


There are many free and open scrum source tool available at present in market. Most of them are not easy to use, user friendly or not even easy to Implement and supported. Quickscrum provides extremely user friendly drag and drop interface, highly scalable source code, on demand customization, reports,  integration with other tools, online agile training, well documentation and extremely quick support.


It provides features such as backlog management, sprint planning, task board, dashboard which includes project summary, burndown chart, iteration  progress etc and reports.


We have alredy received great response from agile community and hoping to server all of them greatly.Mr. Mrugesh Panchal (Director of Bcssarl) Said “Quickscrum is very useful for those who are searching for free tool as well as it is perfect for multinational or Midsize companies who are looking for dedicated support and customization as well as business intelligence.”


For more details please visit us at http:\\www.quickscrum.com or send us an email at contactus@quickscrum.com, we will get back to you within 24 hours.


About Bharti Consulting Services SARL, France

Bharti Consulting Services SARL,France is an ISO 9001-2008 certified IT services provider having headquater in Paris, France and offshore  development center in India. We provides Business proces management, Custom software development, Web designing, Dedicated resources, Support and Maintenance services either onsite or offshore based on customer needs. We have customer based mainly in all European countries.


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Company name:  Bharti Consulting  Services SARL
Address :              47, Rue Klock, Clichy  - 92110
Telephone:           0033 – 629 30 23 94
Website:                http://www.quickscrum.com

Email:                     contactus@quickscrum.com