Vishal Prasad

Synopsis:
This topic doesn’t demean the profession of a Product Owner and doesn’t mean that the Product Owner is not essential so killing them would solve the problem; rather it highlights the amount of dependencies a development team may end up building around the Product Owner that it may end up killing the credibility and value chain driven…[Read more]

Synopsis:
This topic doesn’t demean the profession of a Product Owner and doesn’t mean that the Product Owner is not essential so killing them would solve the problem; rather it highlights the amount of dependencies a development team may end up building around the Product Owner that it may end up killing the credibility and value chain driven…[Read more]

Synopsis:
When Winston Royce first defined the term waterfall, the simplest diagram that depicted software development had only two steps: analysis & coding. Obviously this was a very broad scope hence the more detailed derivation of SDLC involved a series of steps that we now call waterfall. Although analysis is a defined step in waterfall, it…[Read more]

Technical debt is a very common phenomenon; in fact it occurs with virtually every line of code whether you want it or not. Although unoptimized coding due to the rush presented by management pressure may be one of the major reasons for technical debt, it occurs in various flavors based on the nature of execution. Sometimes, even the best written…[Read more]

Synopsis:
Agile Principle # 12 defines that at regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. From Scrum to Kanban and other agile frameworks, this is accomplished through retrospectives and continuos improvement processes. The key to being a successful agile practitioner is…[Read more]

Synopsis:
Agile Principle # 12 defines that at regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. From Scrum to Kanban and other agile frameworks, this is accomplished through retrospectives and continuos improvement processes. The key to being a successful agile practitioner is…[Read more]

Summary: As a Product Owner I want to play games to prioritize a backlog so that conflicting stakeholders reach a consensus without killing each other

Description: One of the most important responsibilities of a Product Owner is to make sure that the product backlog is prioritized in order to maximize the ROI of a product. Prioritization is also…[Read more]