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Question & Answers - Agile/Scrum for onshore/offshore hybrid model

1. What are the various methods to following Agile programming?

a. Extreme Programming

b. Scrum

c. DSDM

d. FDD

e. Crystal Clear

2. What is the fundamental difference between Traditional Waterfall model vs. Agile?

a. Water fall is plan driven while Agile is value driven.

Best practices for Agile/Scrum for onshore/offshore model - A Hybrid Model – Part II

In the previous article we discussed about Roles, Meetings, Processes, and Tools to use in our hybrid model. In this article we will briefly go over the do’s and don’ts that will get us moving in the RIGHT direction.

Do’s

• Offshore Scrum Master can be a traditional PM, but has to have a “Servant leader and Facilitator” mindset.

• For a new Scrum team, it is important to understand the ramp up time for resources, and various environment setup and continuous integration setup – before 1st Dev Sprint begins.

Best practices for Agile/Scrum for onshore/offshore model - A Hybrid Model – Part I

This article plans to cover various aspects with respect to onshore/offshore development using Agile/Scrum methodology. At a high level the article is expanded to include Roles, Meetings, Processes about the hybrid model.

Roles

Traditional Agile Scrum roles are as follows:

• Product Owner: This role defines features from a business standpoint and is the most knowledgeable person about the feature. This role also prioritizes these features on a active basis.

Interactive Voice Response Systems (IVRS) Test Automation

It is challenging to setup automation for IVR systems because of the complexity of setting up test systems, Synchronization of calls generated with call flow being used, the ability of the automation framework to simulate all supported actions of the call flow and large volume of calls to be generated.

I wanted to share my experience in setting up test environments for automation testing when testing IVR systems with DTMF functionality. At the end of this blog, I have outlined how the same approach can be used for automated testing of Speech enabled IVR systems.