Shrikant Vashishtha

Agile Thinking: Stop Starting, Start Finishing

Limiting “Work in Process” (WIP) items is one of the key ideas behind Kanban and Lean approaches to developing software.

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Why IoT Hasn’t Already Happened

It can get frustrating to look at a technology that’s so ripe to change the world and not see anything major appear to happen

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Which Software Metrics to Choose, and Why?

Sometimes people just look for an available or known set of metrics and then add more as and when they discover anything new. But does it really make sense to try and apply those known metrics to any scenario?

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Printing a Physical Scrum Board from Atlassian Jira

It’s a well-known fact that physical Scrum Boards provide many benefits over their electronic counterparts

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Agile Thinking: How Can I Help You?

One of the key fundamental elements of Agile is its focus on delivering a testable or demonstrable end-to-end functional slice that provides business value

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The Evolution of the Tester Role

Repeated software-development tasks are becoming automated through the application of Continuous Delivery and DevOps

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Docker: What, Why and When?

It’s a very common problem: you develop an application that works perfectly on your laptop but not in other environments

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Testing Pattern: Developers Write First Automated Functional Test

In automation testing, even though testers create the actual automation tests, developers help in laying the foundation to create those test cases

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The Open Secret of Agile Success

Even after a team implements the key components of Agile, they can still face issues during a project. Why?

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Distributed Agile Patterns: Defining Overlap Time

Distributed Agile teams are the reality these days, so how can teams mitigate communication issues due to significant time zone differences?

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Customer Success Over Customer Satisfaction

Digitalization of papers, evolvement of streaming media, explosion of mass content creation, on-demand access to various content: we are now entering a new era of how television content is created, delivered, and even defined.

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Improve Sprint Throughput with “Definition of Ready”

Software development teams are very focused on customer satisfaction (and rightly so), and there’s no doubt that high team throughput is one of the most important factors in customer satisfaction

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Patterns of Collaboration for Collocated Teams

After working with many Agile projects, I realized that collaboration goes beyond simply working together

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It’s a Mobility First World

One of the surprising technology trends of 2013 was the rate of massive mobile adoption.

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