by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Dec 18, 2017 | Agile
Design Thinking – Who needs to change? Me or Team or the entire firm? One of the questions asked in Design Thinking Webinar is “Does it need the organization to change?” This is a very interesting question as there is definitely two sides to the coin. So I created a...
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...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Sep 11, 2017 | Agile, Project Management
Demography in India is a huge topic often discussed in B-school as a key strength. Let’s take a few statistics here Average Age of an Indian 29 50% of the population is less than 25 Dependency Ratio of India is approaching 0.4 Refer Wikipedia : dependency...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Jun 12, 2017 | Chow
Daniel is the scrum master for a financial product and his team is responsible for the front office processing. Thamizhan is the QA lead for this financial product. They often work together to keep the quality and product wellness in perfect shape. Regression...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | May 23, 2017 | Agile
In one of the recent conversations I had with an Agile practitioner, he was talking to me about his experiences of Agile practices in Mainframe teams. He mentioned that they were following a 2-month long sprint cycle and within every sprint, they were developing and...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Feb 20, 2017 | Agile
How do we do requirements analysis in Agile projects? Here is the question that I asked several times as a coach while teams start their ‘real’ agile transformation. In teams that are already on their Agile journey, people spend a good part of first 20% of their...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Feb 20, 2017 | Chow
What should Naresh do about the interpersonal conflicts in his teams? Naresh has taken a senior manager position in a software services company and heads the delivery for a product line. When he started setting up the product teams he setup four full-blown scrum teams...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Dec 19, 2016 | Chow
Rani has taken over as a scrum master for the team from another scrum master who has decided move to another group. While taking up the knowledge transfer from the existing scrum master, she understood the role and responsibilities including the facilitation of all...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Dec 19, 2016 | Agile
All agile teams have some level of knowledge transition happening in different levels. It could start with one member coming in new or a specific module or feature within the product. Of course within the knowledge industry context is the crucial part and hence its...
by Gayatri D Kalyanaraman | Oct 17, 2016 | Chow
Karen has a mandate to setup a new team in India for a product line. This product line has teams in the US and they are growing to accommodate to build new features as well as maintain the expansive features. With that context, Karen created a transition plan for a...
