by Paramu Kurumathur | Aug 17, 2020 | Agile, Business Agility, Chow
The Situation Charles Wesley Griffith-Hall was the CEO of the largest financial institution in the world. One day he had gone to the bathroom, and while there, he met the VP of new products and started talking about what innovative ideas were on the horizon. While...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Aug 17, 2020 | Agile, Business Agility, Chow
The situation Vishnusharman said, “Mohammed, remember when we were previously talking about individual goals and team goals, you mentioned how conflicts can arise when a person’s personal, outside of work, goals conflict with team goals? Chitraa and I were just...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Aug 17, 2020 | Agile, Business Agility, Chow
The situation “Your organisation is using Scrum for software development, right? You must have heard of Scrum ceremonies like the daily scrum or the daily stand-up. Now, the Scrum Guide recommends three questions – what did you accomplish, what will you accomplish and...
by Paramu Kurumathur | May 8, 2020 | Agile, Business Agility, Chow
Here is a fable. The challenge is to figure out what Agile value or principle (the words ‘value’ and ‘principle’ is used in its general sense) is taught in this fable. There was once a king of a small kingdom. The kingdom had lived in peace for a long time. The king...
by Paramu Kurumathur | May 7, 2020 | Agile, Coaching
Agile has caught the fancy of the world. It is now a force to reckon with in our rapidly changing business world. Development practices based on Agile have become the first choice of project managers and leaders across thousands of organisations worldwide. Time and...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Mar 24, 2020 | Agile
[Please read PM Power’s Enterprise Agile Transformation Manifesto, Mindfulness for Agile Culture and Mindset – Extract from our upcoming book and Myths to sustain self-organisation in large organisations – An extract from the upcoming PM Power...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Nov 29, 2019 | Chow
There is a story, most probably apocryphal, about a famous research institution in Yorktown Heights, New York, USA. One of the labs in the institution was headed by a manager who was not a scientist himself. All the scientists in the lab working under his direction,...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Nov 29, 2019 | Agile
[Please read PM Power’s Enterprise Agile Transformation Manifesto, Mindfulness for Agile Culture and Mindset – Extract from our upcoming book and Myths to sustain self-organisation in large organisations – An extract from the upcoming PM Power book on Organisational...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Jun 27, 2019 | Chow
“One of the key things we did to encourage self-organisation in our teams was re-distribution of responsibility among the people. Especially from managers to the team members. Our workers need to be empowered for them to feel that they can own their work and be...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Jun 27, 2019 | Agile
[Please read PM Power’s Enterprise Agile Transformation Manifesto and Mindfulness for Agile Culture and Mindset – Extract from our upcoming book to fully understand the context of this blog post.] One week had passed since Vishnusharman had been engaged by Pataliputra...
