by J Veeraraaghavan | Jul 17, 2017 | Chow
WayToGo Inc. is a leading CRM solutions provider headquartered in San Jose with development teams divided between San Jose and Bangalore. They have hired you as a consultant to help them transform to being an Agile enterprise focusing on shorter cycle times for...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Jul 17, 2017 | Agile
I have been often asked this question in my coaching stint with many organizations in India – “What is the career path for a Scrum Master”? Mike Cohn’s blogs on this provide some interesting perspectives but there are always questions on the extent of their relevance...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Mar 12, 2017 | Chow
You are the Scrum Master for a team that is distributed between India and the US. You have two development engineers, the architect and the Product Owner based in Boston, US while three development and three test engineers are based out of Bangalore, India. As the...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Mar 2, 2017 | Agile
I have been involved with three organizations in the recent past where there have been some major debates about whether teams need a full-time Scrum Master (SM) to be successful. Many of these discussions have involved senior leaders in the company feverishly arguing...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Mar 2, 2017 | Chow
You are the Scrum Master for a team that is distributed between India and the US. You have two development engineers, the architect and the Product Owner based in Boston, US while three development and three test engineers are based out of Bangalore, India. As the...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Oct 11, 2016 | Chow
Vidyut is a SM who has attended a Scrum program conducted by a fairly well known Scrum Trainer. In response to a question, the Trainer mentions that while the Scrum guide talks about the PO being part of a Scrum team, the PO has a different role from the Scrum Team...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Mar 23, 2016 | Chow
This is an example of an engineering organization that is structured based on areas of specialization (such as the core product engine, user experience (UX), developer experience, system integration, common engineering services and so on). Any typical product release...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Mar 23, 2016 | Agile
A certainly debatable and may be controversial question. Scott Ambler (SA) debunks the Standish Group’s Chaos report that claims that only one third of all projects world-wide are successful. He uses his own survey to gauge success and claims that two-thirds of Agile...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Sep 22, 2014 | Agile, Coaching, Project Management
When I started as an Agile coach eight years ago, my only relative and somewhat debatable “agile” experience was some iterative development we did on a very large product over nearly 19 months. This was a project where we worked with 6-week iterations for 14...
