What Traditional goal-setting is to the Performance Management System, Waterfall methodology is to the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). Well, these are passé! Today all IT professionals swear by the Agile methodology because it highlights the most important phenomenon of life i.e. ADAPTABILITY TO CHANGE. Agile & Agile Goal Setting 🔁Agile software development is the oxygen to disciplined product development & project management, it revolves around the idea of ‘Iterative development’. Where the focus is on People over Process, Cross-functional team over Specialists, Priority over Plan, Collaboration over Centralization. Ever thought about grabbing the components of Agile and placing

A decade back, a remote retrospective used to happen via conference calls. However, now the trend is changing. Companies are moving towards a remote-friendly environment. Also, because of technology, the world is very well connected now. When we work with remote teams, we feel it might be challenging to conduct a retrospective effectively. However, it is much more comfortable today because we have better video conferencing services, online tools to provide retrospective notes and, collaboration. Some companies work full-time remote while others, like our company, Kiprosh have a partial remote working provision. Hence, there is a fair chance of having

Recently we had a good Retrospective. I loved the outcome of this retrospective. First we had an Ice breaker session, Empathy Snap followed by PLEASURE AND GAIN retrospective. Empathy Snap Is a nice Ice breaking team building exercise. We did empathy snap for the big hitter + big blow and through this exercise team really came to know, how well they can empathise with each other So it was a nice start, everyone opened up and ready for the retrospective. Joy is not in things; it is in us. PLEASURE AND GAIN retrospective was nice way to see how we can