by Gopal Gopalan | Mar 26, 2017 | Mindfulness, Personal Growth
‘I am just an engineer’ is what I heard as I was climbing the stairs in office. This statement got me thinking. I wondered why such a statement was made – was it despair? Was it anguish? My wonder turned to worry and so sought the real reason. It...
by Gopal Gopalan | Mar 26, 2017 | Chow
Param had done a great job on the 3 projects he had participated as a developer and designer. He was assigned as the design lead in a large application development project for a travel company. He was outstanding in his design that the team and the customer were in...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Mar 19, 2017 | Agile
Sometime back at PM Power Consulting, we were talking about adoption of the Scrum framework for non-technical areas such as Sales, Marketing, Finance etc. Our predominant experience has been in consulting for Agile transformation in software organizations. So, we were...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Mar 19, 2017 | Chow
Mateen is the Scrum Master for a project with sprint duration of three weeks. The current sprint had completed two weeks and seemed to be going well. Mateen felt he could take a week off for some rest and relaxation before the next sprint which promised to be much...
by A Narasimhan | Mar 13, 2017 | Agile
While there are many important aspects that help in successful adoption of Agile, I would like to write about one of them here and that is ‘a compelling reason for continuous improvement’. While some situations might force teams to take to Agile, I believe...
