by Vishu | Sep 29, 2014 | Business Agility, Leadership, Project Management
The level of leveraging of GIC (Global Inhouse Center) in India by a multinational company is directly proportional to the level of ‘Purpose-Maturity’ of the GIC. ‘Purpose-Maturity’ indicates the level of strategic thinking of establishing GIC...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Sep 22, 2014 | Agile, Coaching, Project Management
When I started as an Agile coach eight years ago, my only relative and somewhat debatable “agile” experience was some iterative development we did on a very large product over nearly 19 months. This was a project where we worked with 6-week iterations for...
by S Vasudev | Sep 22, 2014 | Coaching, Leadership, Personal Growth
Years back, I was working on a project and putting long hours, my boss noticed this and asked me to meet him first thing the next morning. Next morning when I met him, he said “if the work requires long hours, see that you work late only alternate days say...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Sep 15, 2014 | Leadership, Mindfulness, Personal Growth
This post can also be heard In this post we look at one very important lesson that I have learned as a manager: Friendship and work relationship should be kept separate; you may need to make uncomfortable staffing calls. In my previous job I had a person...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Sep 15, 2014 | Leadership, Mindfulness, Personal Growth
As a person who has worked as a CIO for a large international organisation, I will use the CIO’s role as an example and take a few issues that I have faced, some mistakes that I have committed and some successes that I have had and talk about what I have learned...