Category Archives: Agile

Tip-toe through Naukri, India’s No.1 job site #OneDayTale

Glipmse of Hackathon 2016. We love open source and hence we are very open to transparency. The inception to this blog post was an idea to share the walk through of how a user is served in a typical day by your beloved Naukri.com. Naukri is a black box which gives you results but under the hood it is way more than what anyone can think. Under the hood [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="800"] Under the hood working of a car, GIF image.[/caption] Source Something like below is what we are continuously doing to serve you better. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="549"] Car engine... Read More

How we define our Minimum Viable Product @Naukri, India’s No.1 Job Site?

Source Minimum Viable Product, or if I say Minimum Buy-able product. Sounds good ? If not lets go deeper with what it actually means. Minimum viable product is simply defined as : The minimum product features that can be bought or you can say that minimal which can get the early adopters and help you attain feedback from them to build the finished product. Wikipedia says “In product development, the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to gather validated learning about the product and its continued development.” When we get a... Read More

Web and Mobile Implicit Requirements

Requirement analysis is the first and foremost step for planning phase itself. Let us see what wiki says about requirement analysis Requirement analysis in systems engineering and software engineering, encompasses those tasks that go into determining the needs or conditions to meet for a new or altered product or project, taking account of the possibly conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders, analysing, documenting, validating and managing software or system requirements. What?? Hold on, it is very complicated and cumbersome!!  Let’s make it simple, Requirements are the... Read More

Lessons learned in productivity and time management working as a Technaukrat

We all have 24 hours with us. Some wish they had more because of their piled up work, whereas some manage to check off all the items in their check list. All that makes the difference is time management. Management of time is a skill we all need to excel to be able to stay satisfied in our lives and maintain a healthy work-life balance. As a Technaukrat, that's what we call ourselves at Naukri, we have learnt a few skills to improve productivity and time management skills, and would like to share the same with you. Here are a few tips that will help one use time judicially and live a... Read More

Effective meetings @Naukri

Did you know ? Every day 83 million people attend 11.5 million meetings No ? Ok, lets get started Meetings, a fancy word in corporate that everyone come across a lot many times (For some it can be a very effective excuse to avoid other things though :-P) Meetings are integral part of any process oriented organization. It makes sense to meet every while to get the status updates, near future plans, project deadlines, company’s future projection etc. Now why we are writing this post is because something is wrong with meetings that we all should improve and we are... Read More

Continuous Testing at Naukri

Continuous integration is the talk of the town. Every business is aiming to ship products quicker with no compromise on quality. With this evolution in the IT industry, there was a huge requirement to fine tune our test processes and revive the traditional test approaches. This blog details out some of the changes that happened at Naukri leading to more focused and grown-up QA practices. Challenges faced during continuous improvement: The IT industry has evolved significantly with the changing time. This evolution is majorly driven by factors like advancement in information technology,... Read More

Working as a Scrum Master

The agile team concept is one of the Scrum practices that might be difficult to fully grasp. For me at least, this is a continuous learning experience. We have been following agile for few iterations now. We slowly adapted all the processes and learned and improved from problems we faced. We learned that to succeed in this, all team members (scrum) have to understand all concepts and processes. Scrum is a lightweight framework designed to help small, close-knit teams of people develop complex products. Scrum recognizes only three distinct roles:- Product Owner Scrum Master Team... Read More

Why does Product Backlog Grooming Matter?

Product Backlog grooming is something that we have discovered to be valuable, and it has lead to a more productive sprint-planning meeting. Purpose of backlog grooming is to make improvements to the product backlog by providing input on the current state of upcoming stories. This includes getting clarity, identifying dependencies, risks, assumptions, acceptance criteria which can lead us to estimate & plan better. A Backlog Grooming session should be used for: Detailing out user stories to define “what” and “how” Breaking down user stories that are too big (epics) - it... Read More

Agile : Iteration Planning

Epic, Feature, Story. “A goal without a plan is just a wish” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Agile, It’s all about flexibility in the course of software development phase. But flexibility is not possible without a proper plan in place. Even when we decide the architecture of a software, we often keep in mind that the software stays flexible to any changes in future and therefore design patterns come into picture. There comes Iteration,  a step by step approach. Grab yourself a cup of coffee as we are going to dig deeper into it. Planning plays a vital role in the software development life cycle. It... Read More

SOS (Scrum of Scrums)

More than 15 scrums teams, lot of dependencies, frequent changes, multiple big projects, Is this not a challenge ? Yes, it is. When multiple teams are working together on a project, there are many cross-team issues and dependencies that need to be resolved. In Naukri, we follow scrum methodology and scrum of scrums is the the technique which we use to solve such problems. What is SOS (Scrum of Scrums) ? A Scrum of Scrums is a group team made up of representatives from each of several other teams. Usually the representatives are the Scrum Masters from each team, although sometimes... Read More