How to Cultivate Agile In Your Organization – Issues and the Practical Solutions

How to Cultivate Agile in Your Organization

In this article, we will discuss in detail the various issues and solutions to cultivate Agile in your organization. 

You should be well aware of elementary Agile adoption in your organization. However, we are just getting to the first base of successful Agile implementation in an organization.

You can take a look at the articles we have covered till now in this ‘Successful Agile implementation‘ series.

Agile has the capability to spread across all fronts of software development and delivery. It has been built to have deep roots within the management framework. To achieve this expansion and depth, there has to be a continuous improvement approach and an ongoing journey towards Agile implementation. As this is a prolonged subject and includes multiple complexities and challenges of Agile, it is fragmented into two segments.

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What is User Story and Acceptance Criteria (Examples)

What Is User Story And Acceptance Criteria

Master the art of crafting user stories and learn to define acceptance criteria that ensure project success. Explore all about User stories and acceptance criteria to unlock the power of clear communication in software development:

In the software development industry, the word “requirement” defines our goal, what the customers need exactly, and what will make our company increase its business.

Be it a product company that makes software products or a service company that offers services in various software fields, the prime base for all of them is the requirement, and success is defined by how well the requirements are met.

The term ‘requirement’ has different names in different project methodologies.

In Waterfall, it is referred to as a “Requirement/Specification Document”, in Agile or SCRUM it is referred to as an “Epic” or “User Story”.

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How To Be a Good Team Mentor, Coach and a True Team-Defender in an Agile Testing World?

How To Be a Good Team Mentor in an Agile Team

Get to know how to be a good Mentor to inspire growth and foster excellence in your dev team. Transform your leadership skills and cultivate the next generation of talent in this massive tech world:

You must be impressed with the ‘Idea’ AD and this time it is back with the ‘Walk when you talk’ idea.

Abhishek Bacchan, appears as a doctor in ‘Walk When You Talk’ AD, and this is definitely out of an ordinary AD, but then, I wouldn’t expect anything else from the “Idea” AD; I love to see the AD and it’s one of my favorite AD since it’s placed in line with my emotion and I hope with some of your emotion as well.

Is it just an AD to change the health and mindset of people or an AD to increase mobile connection sales?

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How to Implement Efficient Test Automation in the Agile World

Automation-in-Agile

Quickly accelerate your Agile journey with smart test automation. Unleash the full potential of your development cycle with efficient test automation techniques in the agile world:

Automation in Agile is very critical. Think about the many features that are added and delivered to every Sprint.  There has to be a way to make sure that the newly added feature is not impacting the existing functionality.

Due to the low Sprint duration, it is practically impossible to execute the entire suit every time the product is incremented at the Sprint ends.  Having an automated test suit would play a bigger role here.

However, introducing and maturing into automation would take some time. Doing an initial investment in planning and designing the automation activity would pay off in the long run.

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Some Tricky Manual Testing Questions & Answers

Manual Testing Question and Answer

Interviews play a major role in the life of any human. Mostly all of us aim to clear the interviews on the first attempt.

In this tutorial, you will learn some tricky manual testing questions and answers, along with examples to help you crack the interview easily.

These interview questions will be very useful for beginner, intermediate, and experienced testers. These questions are quite tricky, hence you need to answer them carefully.

Let’s move on!!

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Continuous Integration Process: How to Improve Software Quality and Reduce Risk

Continuous Integration Process: How to Improve Software Quality and Reduce Risk

Perfectly streamline your development workflow with continuous integration to build, test, and deploy at great speed. Understand the CI process and elevate your software quality effortlessly:

In our previous tutorial, we explained how Shift left testing is performed in detail.

Earlier, we understood the nuances of Continuous Delivery (CD) where we have production-ready software at any point via continuous feedback loops. Continuous integration (CI) is the real meat behind the CD process and is the reason that makes Continuous Delivery possible.

To understand CI, let’s take the terms at face value and deduce a basic definition. The first word means “ongoing” or “frequent” and the second is “merged” or “made part of”. So CI is a process where something is being “merged”-“frequently”.

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How to Make Agile Estimation Process Easy With Planning Poker

Planning Poker Technique

An in-depth analysis of Planning Poker Technique with examples. Planning Poker Technique – commonly known as Scrum Poker Cards is a simple and easy agile estimation process technique:

The art of estimation is known to all. We estimate every day in our lives. Most of us can estimate the weight of the vegetables just by holding them and even gauge the ripeness of a fruit by its aroma.

For a real-life example of estimation let’s take a scenario of 3 friends: 

Tim, Bob, and John want to drive to a Technical Conference after work. The venue is 60 km away and has hilly terrain. Tim, Bob, and John discussed their travel plans over lunchtime. 

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Role of Business Analysts in SCRUM and Why is a QA Best for this Role?

Role Of Business Analysts In SCRUM And Why Is A QA Best For This Role_

In this article, we have explained the role of Business Analysts in SCRUM and why QA is the best for this role. Let’s get started.

A Business Analyst who is briefly referred to as a BA plays a very important role in SCRUM. This person is the link between the product owner/customer and the technical IT team.

Though we have come across several tutorials on our website on BA, we assure you that this tutorial will be unique and explain to you the importance of BA in SCRUM.

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