by Vishu | Sep 25, 2017 | Agile, Mindfulness
Are Mindfulness and Agility related in any way? Does being more aware, alive and calm lead to being more agile? Yes, Mindfulness indeed can enhance Agility – better sense & respond mechanism, at an individual level as well as at an enterprise level. In Yogic...
by Shiv Sivaguru | Sep 25, 2017 | Chow
Babu appeared irritated. He was the project manager in a large Systems Integrator, who had successfully grown a new relationship – that started as a 4 person project, to a 50 person team. His approach had been to work closely with his customers, anticipate their...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Sep 18, 2017 | Chow
When talking about a manager’s role in supporting a Scrum team, people often say, that a key thing is buying pizzas for team members every now and then! While pizzas are great especially when they come free, as a senior leader – say, a Director of...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Sep 18, 2017 | Agile
The topic of hardening sprints is much-discussed among Agile practitioners – sometimes in purist indignation but more in expressing helplessness, I feel! Let’s first understand what a hardening sprint is – it is an additional sprint that some Scrum...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Sep 11, 2017 | Chow
Aryan has been the product owner in a large financial organization for the last 18 months. After finishing his B-School, he found it slightly hard to get the grasp of story writing. He invested time to understand and empathise with the users goals and priorities and...