Good Practices

5 WHYs: Positive Root Cause Analysis To Find Good Practices

In my earlier article I shared my opinion about using 5 WHYs to find root causes. What I really missed to point was, it is not just applied to find root cause to problems, but it can be used to find root cause to good things that are happening on the team.

In sprint retrospectives we usually pick some problem that occurred, try to figure out why it happened, and then understand how we could prevent this problem from happening again in the future. Our root cause analysis meetings are usually always on “What is That Not Going Well”.

Now let’s apply 5 WHYs thinking to this question…

Distributed Agile:10 Good Practices of Successful Teams

by Avienaash Shiralige 8 Comments

Distributed agile teams can exist in different forms like.

Product Owner is onshore, Team is offshore
Team split between two or more locations
A complex model like product owner not with onshore team and development team distributed across time zones

I would like to share top 10 good practices that are implemented by successful distributed agile teams.

100 Practices to Form Your Dream Scrum Team

by Avienaash Shiralige 12 Comments

Today I would like to share few practices that I have seen working wonders to teams following scrum. Not all the practices are followed by all the scrum teams. But by and large you see highly successful teams has many of them from this list.

Below is a mind map which you can download to see in it a bigger view or click zoom after you click on the image to see larger view.

I would like to hear from all of you regarding what else you would like to add to this list or modify any of them. Depending upon your feedback I will update this diagram and share updated version of this for everyone to use.

On purpose, I have not included XP practices just to keep focus only on Scrum.

What practices you would like to see or have experienced in your dream scrum team? Please write to me in the comments section.