by Paramu Kurumathur | Jan 31, 2019 | Chow
“Yes. Individual discipline is a key component of an Agile organisation. I will tell you why…” Why and how is individual discipline a key component of an Agile organisation? Can you discuss this in terms of the Agile principles of Individuals and Interactions...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Jan 31, 2019 | Agile
This blog post is an extract from our upcoming book on organisational agility. The objective of the book is to help leaders, managers and change agents (including internal and external agile coaches) involved in organizational agile transformations and project /...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Sep 4, 2018 | Project Management
We were having our regular Thursday meeting. This meeting provided the platform for each partner or consultant of my organization (PM Power Consulting Pvt. Ltd. aka PM Power) to update the others on their status and plans. Three of our partners had been busy over the...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Sep 4, 2018 | Chow
I was walking along the corridors of our office one day when I happened to hear a conversation. My colleague, Ananth Natarajan, was talking to a visitor and was telling him about our book. “Software Project Health: An Epic Retold”, that had just been launched. This is...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Jun 18, 2018 | Chow
In the blogs we had a very active discussion on the assessment of project health. I would like to know your perspectives on how health assessment varied from 1990s to now, and how is assessment likely to evolve as we go to the 2030s? Suggested Solution: We are...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Jun 18, 2018 | Project Management
Project status showed GREEN till yesterday and today it is all RED! Does this sound familiar? Maybe, it has been RED for a while, but somehow, the RED did not become visible till now. And this often happens at the eleventh hour when fire-fighting is the only option...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Jun 18, 2018 | Project Management
Project status showed GREEN till yesterday and today it is all RED! Does this sound familiar? Maybe, it has been RED for a while, but somehow, the RED did not become visible till now. And this often happens at the eleventh hour when fire-fighting is the only option...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Jun 18, 2018 | Project Management
(A modified version of this discussion with Ananth was used as the script for the PM Power webinar that was telecast live on July 31st, 2018.) Project status showed GREEN till yesterday and today it is all RED! Does this sound familiar? Maybe, it has been RED for a...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Feb 20, 2018 | Agile, Chow
Reading the scenario painted in the blog: Program Health Vital Signs, can you distil out a few vital signs of programs? Suggested Solution: Extract 1. Arjuna thought, “For one, I coordinated the work of the different projects under the program.”...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Feb 20, 2018 | Agile, Project Management
The key to the health of a project is the implementation of good practices. A ‘healthily’ developed product is a product where good practices are implemented at all stages during development. A product that is developed through a project that is healthy at all stages...
