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Agile vs Prototyping

Agile vs Prototyping 1) What is Prototyping Prototyping is an attractive and feasible model for those complex and large systems which have no manual process …

What is Prototyping

Prototyping is an attractive and feasible model for those complex and large systems which have no manual process or existing system for determining the requirements. Prototype development is based on currently known requirements. Prototype gives client the actual feel of system. It also help clients for better understanding of the desired system requirements.

Prototype is not a complete system itself. Many details are also not built in the prototype model. Basic goal of Prototype model is to provide a system which gives overall functionality. Click Here to read more...

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Team Building Activities To Motivate Employees

Motivating Team Building Activities at Work Productivity in work can only be guaranteed if your employees have the ability to work well together. The teams …

Motivating Team Building Activities at Work

Productivity in work can only be guaranteed if your employees have the ability to work well together. The teams who can work together are more efficient and passionate about success. If one of the member goes low, the others can put him on track. Such teams are happier, successful and fun working with. Work becomes interesting if there’s some activity to engage the employees. Team building and team development is thus important so your employees are motivated to work for you.

These simple and applicable team building activities at work are totally motivating. Following activities are especially designed to motivate employees and encourage team work.

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Top 7 communication barriers at workplace (Benefits of effective communication)

Top 7 communication barriers at workplace (Benefits of effective communication) Communication skills are a must for every employee of an organization. While employees go through …

Top 7 communication barriers at workplace (Benefits of effective communication)

Communication skills are a must for every employee of an organization. While employees go through a rigorous selection procedure, it still becomes a problem for them to coordinate fully with each other. This problem usually arises due to communication barriers at workplace. If these communication barriers are not catered on time, it is likely that they will persist and weaken the real time collaboration among your employees. Communication barriers tend to increase if you don’t pay attention to them. In order to enhance productivity and efficiency of employees, you need to overcome these communication barriers.

Related: Top 11 Communication Skills to Be Successful

Most communication barriers occur due to small misinterpretations and misunderstandings. Some happen due to the stressful work environment. Usually employees have different personalities and it becomes hard for them to understand each other.

Following communication barriers are most prevalent in modern times, ways to overcome them are also provided.

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70 + Places To Promote Your Content for Digital Marketing

70 + Places To Promote Your Content for Digital Marketing Content is the king in modern times. It adds value to your business and enhances …

70 + Places To Promote Your Content for Digital Marketing

Content is the king in modern times. It adds value to your business and enhances your online presence. Content plays a vital role in the promotion of your business. However, your content must be authentic and go viral. If your content has spark it will go viral in no time. Once you have created valuable content, your next step would be to promote it on different platforms.

There are various ways to promote your content. Following points will give you complete details of the places where you can promote your content.

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Why Scrum Works – Agile Software Development Methodology

Why Scrum Works There are many project management systems in Agile, Scrum is one of them. Scrum is a project management working life cycle, and …

Why Scrum Works

There are many project management systems in Agile, Scrum is one of them. Scrum is a project management working life cycle, and mostly used in software developments. Often people think that scrum is a methodology but, actualy it is an Agile framework for managing the development processes. Scrum is a fastest  planning for working. It works more fast than others because it works on some favourable pattern, which we have discussed later down here. Scrum partite (divide) the work and is easy to understand.

Scrum is useful for team to communicate and coordinate with each others. Scrum is a structured programming and meeting style, which works well for Scrum team. Scrum has a simple but effective mechanism for tracking project progress.

There are a lot of reason which makes scrum work better than other programming framework. Few reasons are listed below and shortly discussed.

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User stories applied guide in agile scrum, user story best practices

User stories applied guide in agile scrum, user story best practices User story is an Agile software development methodology tool which helps to capture a …

User story is an Agile software development methodology tool which helps to capture a description of a software feature from the perspective of end-user. User story help to create requirement description.

User story describes three thing:

Type of user

What user want?

Why user want?

In Agile software development user story is a description which is consist of one or more sentences from end-users or the system users which capture that what a user does or what s/he need.

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How To Write a Viral Blog Posts, Making a Killer Blogging Content

1. How to write killer and go viral blogpost Going viral is what every blogger wants. However, it is not very simple. It requires a …

How to write killer and go viral blogpost

Going viral is what every blogger wants. However, it is not very simple. It requires a lot of focus, modern tips, ultimate techniques and most importantly go viral content. Your content must connect with your audience, it must be relevant yet unique. A successful blog is a huge asset for a business. With useful content, trending topic and quality headline you can make your blog worthy. But it wouldn’t be of any use if you don’t market your blog on various channels. Thus, content creation and content marketing is both equally vital for a successful blog.

There are many ways to ensure that your blogs go viral. Fortunately, we have picked up easiest ones for our readers. Following steps are tried, tested and proved to provide satisfactory results.

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Improve productivity to grow your business sales

How productivity can grow your business sales Productivity is the essence of everything in business. Productive team will likely grow your business and expand your …

How productivity can grow your business sales

Productivity is the essence of everything in business. Productive team will likely grow your business and expand your sales. Incorporating productivity in every department must be the core responsibility of team leaders and even upper management. Importance of productivity just can’t be denied in growth and development of business.

So what’s basically productivity in sales or sales productivity.

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User Story Characteristics in agile scrum methodology

User Story Characteristics In agile Scrum Methodology User story is a description of objective, which helps a person to achieve a feature. So that he …

User Story Characteristics In agile Scrum Methodology

User story is a description of objective, which helps a person to achieve a feature. So that he able to utilize that feature when using software application.

User story is a part of Agile development process. Every process has some characteristics which makes it clear and concise. User story is a first process is Agile development process. A good user story can convey a good understanding to programmer about requirement. User story is a description of the user valuable features , good user story should include the roles, functions and business value of three elements.

As a (Role) I Want (What) So That (Why, Benefit)

User stories are most popular agile technique. It helps to capture the product functionality. User stories make work easy. Definition of an effective user stories can be hard. These given tips will help you to create an effective user stories.

Microsoft Press defines Acceptance Criteria as:

“Conditions that a software product must satisfy to be accepted by a user, customer or other stakeholder.”

Google defines Acceptance Criteria as:

“Pre-established standards or requirements a product or project must meet.”

User Story Characteristics

Here is a short, but informative list of user story characteristics.

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41 Agile Jokes to Surely Make You Die Laughing

41 Agile Jokes to Surely Make You Die Laughing Let’s have a little laugh. We have compiled a list of most well-known agile jokes. They’d …

41 Agile Jokes to Surely Make You Die Laughing

Let’s have a little laugh. We have compiled a list of most well-known agile jokes. They’d surely make you smile. Enjoy!

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Top Books To Write Good User Stories in Agile Scrum Methodology

Top Books About Writing Good User Stories In Agile Scrum Methodology User stories are a short but complete requirement description. These requirements can be unscheduled …

Top Books About Writing Good User Stories In Agile Scrum Methodology

User stories are a short but complete requirement description. These requirements can be unscheduled and shuffled. There are different ways you can  write user stories based on the project domain you work in like, Software development, Mobile apps, Testing, Marketing etc. There are no strict rules in writing user stories, only user stories should well-defined and well-structured.

A user story is mainly comprises of three things:

As a (Role) I Want (What) So That (Why, Benefit)

What should be included in above section when writing user stories is totally up to you. You can include following to make your user story more explanatory. Make sure that you are thinking in terms of functionality but as a user flow.

Use scenario based approach, describe scenario from the point of view from a user

Use real example of problem.

UI mockups.

Condition of satisfaction/Acceptance criteria.

User story is the main part of Agile Development methodology. Basic guideline about effective user stories are described in Agile books. There is also a user stories acceptance criteria in Agile methodology, which we already discussed in our previous blog. In our previous blog we shortly discussed about User Stories Acceptance Definition and Criteria in Agile Methodologies.

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Kanban Vs Scrum Benefits, Similarities, Pros and cons

Kanban Vs Scrum Benefits , Similarities, Advantages and Disadvantages Both methodologies have their pros and cons. Scrum is appropriate, if your organization is really stuck …

Kanban Vs Scrum Benefits , Similarities, Advantages and Disadvantages

Both methodologies have their pros and cons. Scrum is appropriate, if your organization is really stuck and it needs a fundamental shift toward the more efficient process. If your process is already working well and you want to improve it over time without shaking the development system Kanban is better for your organization.

Scrum is a well-defined process framework to structure your work. If your company is not using Agile software development methodology then scrum is a good change for your team. When your team used Scrum methodology then they have to work in:

Iterations

Cross-functional team

With product owner

Under the counseling of Scrum master

Regular meetings

Iteration planning

Sprint reviews

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Top 12 Team Building Activities Indoor and Outdoor

Top 12 Team Building Activities Indoor and Outdoor Team building ensures productivity, success and most importantly job satisfaction. It motivates and encourages employees which in …

Top 12 Team Building Activities Indoor and Outdoor

Team building ensures productivity, success and most importantly job satisfaction. It motivates and encourages employees which in turn develops spirit of positivity and team work.  These values of team building are imperative for your business development. Team building is not as easy as it sounds because there are always leg pullers and office politicians, thus ensuring smooth team building can be challenging.

Don’t worry though because we have some amazing ideas to ensure exceptional team building. We have compiled a great list of tried and tested team building activities equally valid for all sizes organizations. These activities are interesting and aren’t much time consuming so you can perform these in your working hours. There are both indoor and outdoor activities, choose the ones most suitable for your organization as they are equally interesting.

Let’s start with indoor activities first.

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Kickstarter Guide To Secure A Top Spot In Crowdfunding Campaigns and Projects

Guide to secure a top spot in Kickstarter Projects Kickstarter is a known for its turning ideas in to reality. Kickstarter has helped businesses raise …

Kickstarter Guide To Secure A Top Spot In Crowdfunding Campaigns and Projects

Kickstarter is a known for its turning ideas in to reality. Kickstarter has helped businesses raise millions of dollars as funding. Since its launch in 2009, Kickstarter has quickly gained a huge publicity because of its innovative and commendable approach. Not just the big talks, millions of projects are live on Kickstarter along with millions of pledges from investors. Kickstarter’s idea is crowdfunding, which is a modern approach to attract investors particularly via an online platform. The businesses launch their campaign and Kickstarter helps it to reach investors. All sounds so cool, but this isn’t as easy and quick as it seems. Successful Kickstarter campaign is a hard one. Uncountable projects register on Kickstarter everyday but only few make it to the top, same as Google Play Store. There are many apps but only few make it in the top list and thus bag the most downloads.

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Scrum Master Job Descriptions and Responsibilities In Agile Methodology

Scrum Master Job Descriptions and Responsibilities In Agile Methodology Scrum master is known as guardian of Scrum Team, someone that resolves impediment and have control …

Scrum Master Job Descriptions and Responsibilities In Agile Methodology

In this blog we’ll talk about the major skill set employers are looking for when searching for scrum master. Later we’ll talk about the best skills person must develop to be a successful scrum master.

Other major parts of scrum roles are facilitating the scrum ceremonies. His job is to make sure that project is working smoothly and every team member has tools to get their work done efficiently. Scrum master is a challenging role and needs to understood according to priority set by the product owner. Scrum Master must execute the backlog as wished by product owner, making sure that deliverables are on time with production quality.

Scrum master needs to be involved in team conflicts and must have good communication skills.  He must be actively involved in technical matters thus finding out the gaps and ensuring product owner involvement in business decision and description of the functional flow.

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Yahoo in News Due to Latest Verizon Acquisition

Yahoo in News Due to Latest Verizon Acquisition Yahoo has been struggling for success since a long time. The web giant Yahoo was once worth …

Yahoo in News Due to Latest Verizon Acquisition

Yahoo has been struggling for success since a long time. The web giant Yahoo was once worth 100 billion dollars.  Yahoo was founded in 1995 as a portal to the newly known world wide web. Yahoo became 2nd most popular web portal after Google. But that was it for Yahoo. In early 2000, Yahoo was dominated by Google but it still tried to draw some breaths under the heavy competition. Yahoo tried to struggle and changed about 4 CEO’s in 6 years from 2006 to 2012. The bright and shiny CEO’s couldn’t help Yahoo to survive.

Missed Opportunities

selling Alibaba’s $8.1 billion shares for doing some start-up shopping wasn’t a wise move. Click here to read more..

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Scrum Master vs Product Owner Differences in skills, duties and responsibilities (Agile Methodology)

Scrum Master vs Product Owner Differences in Agile Methodology (skills, duties and responsibilities) Agile is a methodology to do work in the easy and convenient …

Scrum Master vs Product Owner Differences in Agile Methodology (skills, duties and responsibilities)

Agile is a methodology to do work in the easy and convenient way. Scrum is the most famous agile methodology. Every Agile methodology consists of four main roles, which are:

Product owner

Scrum master

scrum team

Stakeholder

In scrum software development methodology, Scrum master and product owner are two main roles, which are responsible for separate areas of the project. Both are necessary for the project. In Agile methodology Scrum master is a bridge between product owner and development team.

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