by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Aug 12, 2019 | Agile
When I started my transition journey, it was for a part of a large knowledge transfer of work from ABN Amro to Infosys a decade back. As I have long been associated with knowledge transfers, I observe many mistakes repeated. This blog is to share the essence of my...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Apr 2, 2019 | Agile
After a few years of practicing agile, one the most talked about Next Gen Agile Transformation is Business Agility. In this blog, I want to talk about the changes in expectations from delivery managers to move towards capability leaders. Benefits of moving to a...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Apr 2, 2019 | Chow
Rhea is in a big predicament right now. She is a scrum master for a team that’s focused on maintaining and rewriting a middle ware for the trade processing engine. The team is able to keep things honest on the challenges and they continue to adapt to situations. Her...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Nov 8, 2018 | Chow
Julia is the Product Owner of a team named “Marine Care” and their products’ objective is to reduce the overall cost of ownership. While the TCO is well understood in many circles, this team needs to reduce the technology footprint that’s spread across 18 different...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Nov 8, 2018 | Agile
Product Owner from the scrum guide has two critical responsibilities – Create a good product backlog and continue to prioritize the work based on the customers/committee/ consumers. When I am coaching the product owners, my view is that while the product owners’ have...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Aug 20, 2018 | Chow
Gomathi is an Agile Coach for a globally distributed team on product development and maintenance that has a vision to improve platform stability as well as feature development required to improve revenue generated from the platform. This team is organized into three...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Aug 20, 2018 | Agile
Whenever I speak to teams, there is always a sense of reliance on a handful of people in handling legacy code and understanding the system. One of the inside secrets within the software community is “It’s easy to develop code, hard to maintain and even harder to...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Apr 24, 2018 | Agile
This blog post is focused on what steps senior leadership can take for their agility journey and where to begin. As one of the most popular idioms refer The first step is the most difficult part the journey I would say The realization that you need to take the journey...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Apr 24, 2018 | Chow
Manas has been a scrum master for the team for a year now. His team is working on a product targeted towards retail taxpayers. The recent sprint review gave a boost of confidence to the team. There was a distinct feeling from the team that they have truly reached...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Dec 18, 2017 | Chow
Karthi is a product owner with a large financial organization. He took over as the product owner for the product twelve months ago. He found that most of the projects would fall under two main buckets of work – Technical upgrade type of work or regular...
