by Shiv Sivakumar | May 29, 2017 | Agile
It is well known that Scrum is very popular with Development teams while Operations teams prefer Kanban as it suits their nature of work best. That is because development teams deliver an incremental product over iterations and they have to plan and deliver a product...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Mar 19, 2017 | Agile
Sometime back at PM Power Consulting, we were talking about adoption of the Scrum framework for non-technical areas such as Sales, Marketing, Finance etc. Our predominant experience has been in consulting for Agile transformation in software organizations. So, we were...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Mar 19, 2017 | Chow
Mateen is the Scrum Master for a project with sprint duration of three weeks. The current sprint had completed two weeks and seemed to be going well. Mateen felt he could take a week off for some rest and relaxation before the next sprint which promised to be much...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Dec 31, 2016 | Chow
You are a free-lance Agile coach based in Bangalore. You have been approached by a product development organisation (comprising around 100 engineers in Bangalore and 20 in Pune) dealing with hardware + software for home security / smart home solutions using Internet...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Nov 13, 2016 | Chow
Souma Chatterjee (Souma) was the Scrum Master in a project to develop the next generation of a product called ProClaims which supported her organization’s operation as a Third Party Administrator (TPA) in the medical insurance industry. TPAs process claims on behalf...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Aug 16, 2016 | Chow
Even after three months, it hurt Archana to think about the heated conversation she had with Jessica (“Jessie”) – once her best friend. As a supermom managing family and work, weekends were extra special for Archana. Only then was she able to put work out of her mind...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Aug 15, 2016 | Business Agility, Project Management
Sometime in March 2016, we started with the first part (“Great Practices”) in the series Risk Management: Good to Great. In May 2016, we followed up with Part II of the series on Enablers for Great Practices. To refresh your memory, here is the context diagram from...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Aug 6, 2016 | Chow
Classify the ten items below as one of – A. Competency – B. Enabler – C. Practice – D. Measure of effectiveness – E. Project outcome – F. None of the above list 1. Defects reported 30 days beyond product acceptance by the customer 2. Ability to clearly distinguish...
by Shiv Sivakumar | May 21, 2016 | Agile, Project Management
Sometime in March 2016, we started with the series Risk Management: Good to Great. In Part I of the series on Practices. we covered what we believe are “great” risk management practices based on our consulting practice at PM Power Consulting. As a recap, here is the...
by Shiv Sivakumar | Mar 7, 2016 | Business Agility, Project Management
In our coaching practice at PM Power Consulting, Project Managers, Program Managers and Portfolio Managers (called Delivery Managers in some organizations) often ask us: “How am I doing as a risk manager?” In response to that, we present a comprehensive picture of...
