by J Veeraraaghavan | May 6, 2019 | Agile
The original agile manifesto has been around for nearly two decades now and at a fundamental level, proclaims the core values that Agile stands for. The values of individual interactions, customer collaboration and responsiveness to customer requirements and changes...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Dec 11, 2018 | Chow
Finsys Inc. is a software products and services provider in the insurance and financial services space based out of Boston, MA. Product teams in India for Finsys have been working for the international market using Agile/Scrum during the last two years. The product...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Dec 11, 2018 | Agile
Most of my recent engagements with large corporates moving over to Agile or scaling with Agile have had major challenges in implementation. This has been in no small measure due to them continuing with traditional organization structure thinking even while moving to...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Aug 7, 2018 | Chow
KillerApps Solutions is a software products and services provider in the banking, cargo, and travel verticals. Product teams in India have been working for the international market during the last two years. Teams have delivered two releases of products in each of the...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Aug 7, 2018 | Agile
Over the years, story points have been used by Agile teams as a relative size measure for user stories. With a relative measure there is no such thing as a unit and so a story point does not equate to any unit (such as person days of effort). It is intended purely as...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Mar 19, 2018 | Chow
EzSupport is CRM Solutions’ web-based portal that is hosted on the cloud to help the firm’s customer support engineers resolve L1 and L2 issues for their flagship healthcare product. A dedicated Scrum team of 9 members (including dev and QA) based in Bangalore is...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Mar 19, 2018 | Agile
Agile transformation success stories are not as common as you would expect considering the promise Agile approaches hold. Yet, in my experience in working with many organizations, I have been amazed by how much more they could have achieved if only the various roles...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Nov 6, 2017 | Chow
Wellness For You Inc. is a leading Healthcare solutions provider headquartered in Cambridge, MA with development teams divided between Cambridge and Pune. Their flagship product has most of the development and all of QA happen with a 10-member team in India and some...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Nov 6, 2017 | Agile
This is my second blog in this subject and in a sense, an extension to the earlier one published in July this year (https://pm-powerconsulting.com/blog/role-scrum-master-headed/). The role of the Scrum Master is a widely debated topic in the industry. The overlap (or...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Jul 26, 2017 | Agile
Having worked with several teams over the years, I dare say less than 10% of the Agile teams I have worked with could be classified as “genuinely self-managed”. However, that does not mean that the goal of becoming a self-managed team is unrealistic. With an...
