by Harish Achappa Kallira | Mar 26, 2018 | Chow
Ankit is a scrum master for a team. Their team is responsible for making small enhancements to their product. They also pick up some new features to be added to their product. Ankit’s team is Agile and they follow Scrum. As they have been following Scrum, they...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | Mar 26, 2018 | Agile
This blog is more to share an observation and get inputs from as many folks as possible on sprint planning: Often, teams do their sprint planning in the following way: 1. There are a set of stories (mostly) ready for an upcoming sprint.2. Hence, the teams estimate...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | Dec 11, 2017 | Agile
A backlog must resemble a good folktale- that people will talk about after they have listened to it, allowing freedom to interpret and be able to be told in multiple variations without changing the outcome. Product Owners play a direct role in creating backlogs that...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | Dec 11, 2017 | Chow
Amit is a lead for a team. His team has a clear charter to improve the quality of client engagement information available to their sales team. Towards this, the team is working with analytics and the latest in software – machine learning. The team is following...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | Aug 27, 2017 | Agile
An advantage of considering Design Thinking as an Innovation LEVER is that it clarifies what Design Thinking actually is – and what it is not. Design Thinking provides a structure – for individuals and teams to look closely at challenges, understand the...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | Aug 20, 2017 | Chow
Rohit is managing a team that has newly transitioned to agile for the past few months. Over these months, across multiple sprints – the team has been regularly preparing stories for sprints. As part of sprint planning – they estimate stories using story points and...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | Aug 20, 2017 | Agile
In many new agile teams, sprint planning is used to discuss the stories, estimate stories in story points and plan for the sprint. However, as many sprints happen – and underlying conversation gets louder. Stakeholders want to know how much will actually get done by...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | May 17, 2017 | Agile, Chow, Personal Growth
Divya is a business analyst – working with clients, understanding requirements and ensuring that is understood by the team when they build. She has eight years experience and has been working in teams that you manage for the past couple of years. She has...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | Apr 9, 2017 | Chow
Swathi has recently started working with an agile team as a product owner. In that capacity, Swathi has end to end ownership of her part of the product, She reports in to a product director. She works closely with the sales teams and operations teams to identify...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | Apr 9, 2017 | Project Management
(Rock paintings at Bhimbhetka; dated late stone age, about 30000 years ago. Visual story telling is natural and gets people to quickly gather around an idea and form opinions) In earlier blogs, I had touched upon how it is important to have clarity on the problem...
