by Dhaval Panchal | May 12, 2009 | Experience, Systems Thinking
The Product Owner with in Scrum teams or a Customer in XP teams is critical to the success of the product. What can you do, when they take a vacation? What are your options? Say your product owner is going on a planned vacation for a couple of weeks, effectively...
by Dhaval Panchal | Apr 23, 2009 | Coaching, Experience, Stories
In the late 2000’s, my good friend Subhayu was visiting me in Seattle. In India we would often hike together through remote hills in Western Ghats. So it seemed appropriate that I sign up myself, Subhayu and another friend, Ben, for a day of adventure....
by Dhaval Panchal | Jan 9, 2009 | Experience
As an Agile coach I enjoy the opportunity to learn from people implementing scrum framework and incorporating Agile values and principles. In this process I come across interesting stories and metaphors. After an introductory training session with one team and some...
by Dhaval Panchal | Nov 24, 2008 | Tools & Artifacts
Def: Velocity is the amount of estimated product backlog that a team can fully implement to meet the team Definition of Done within a given sprint [time-box]. The amount of product backlog in the definition above is often expressed in terms of “story...
by Dhaval Panchal | Jul 15, 2008 | Coaching, Facilitation Exercises, leadership, Systems Thinking
A few months ago, I was facilitating sprint retrospective for a multi-cultural team that had members of different national origins (UK, South Africa, Angola and United States). We started gathering information regarding their first sprint. I realized that this team...
