by Shiv Sivakumar | Apr 16, 2018 | Chow
Refer to the blog “Writing a book – how Agile can it be”. In that project context, Salma Sultana, an artist in Bangalore was hired to draw the illustrations for the book working with the developer (author) and the Product Owner all in...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Apr 16, 2018 | Agile
As enterprise Agile coaches in PM Power, we have seen many degrees of Agile adoption in customer organizations – from “doing Agile” going all the way up to “being Agile”. There are varying degrees of adoption even in software development – a domain in which Agile...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Jan 15, 2018 | Agile, Chow
Peter Cohn is the Product Owner(PO) for the maintenance and enhancement of a CRM platform in a large product development organization. The CRM platform is an industry leader unifying case management, business process management, robotics and AI-based decision making....
by Shiv Sivakumar | Jan 9, 2018 | Agile
I was reading about composite materials or composites a few days back. Composites have made many improvements and breakthroughs possible – from baseball bats, to prosthetic limbs and heat shields for spacecraft. It led me to think about extending the concept of...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Dec 4, 2017 | Agile, Project Management
As a Learning & Development (L&D) leader or Delivery Head for software, you have a constant need to upgrade the knowledge and skill levels of teams that are right in the middle of projects – a challenge akin to fuelling in mid-air! You may ask yourself,...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Sep 18, 2017 | Chow
When talking about a manager’s role in supporting a Scrum team, people often say, that a key thing is buying pizzas for team members every now and then! While pizzas are great especially when they come free, as a senior leader – say, a Director of...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Sep 18, 2017 | Agile
The topic of hardening sprints is much-discussed among Agile practitioners – sometimes in purist indignation but more in expressing helplessness, I feel! Let’s first understand what a hardening sprint is – it is an additional sprint that some Scrum teams run at the...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Jun 5, 2017 | Agile, Personal Growth
Some time back, I had the opportunity to read about the growth paths available to a Scrum Master (SM). The thinking behind this was that the SM role for a given Scrum team is not forever. There comes a point in time when the team is able sustain Scrum adoption by...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Jun 4, 2017 | Chow
Barbara Jones had been a Scrum Master for a year with a team and had done a good job getting the team to a good level maturity in Agile adoption. The need for her support had reduced over time. It occupied Barbara just for a few hours per week on an average. Barbara...
by Shiv Sivakumar | May 29, 2017 | Chow
Allrounders is a team of 9 persons supporting some of the important applications in the organization. They were using Kanban so far and are doing well as a team. Anil, their Scrum Master is efficient and is helping the team focus on improving cycle time etc. Last...
