by S Srinivasan | Oct 23, 2017 | Mindfulness, Project Management
Over the years I have managed projects, programs and businesses. One of the fundamentals of managing is to measure the progress, report it and take actions based on it to meet the objectives. In this process, I have gone thru the process – early on by measuring...
by S Srinivasan | Jul 3, 2017 | Mindfulness
Over the years, most of the time, most of us, do the job that we are assigned to do. Yes, the outcome of our hard work is dependent on many factors – our capability, the outside environment, our luck (yes, it does play a part). There’s one other factor...
by S Srinivasan | Jul 3, 2017 | Chow
Ram, is running a fixed price project with a team of 24. He has built this team over the last 6 months. They have completed two early releases, and 4 releases are due over the next 12 months. Ram has built a good rapport with all his team members, and is well regarded...
by S Srinivasan | Apr 30, 2017 | Chow
Over the years Ram had been setting goals/ KPI for his team with ease. For the development team, it would include lines of production code, # of defects that were detected by the test team; for his test team it would be # of in-process defects detected, # of defects...
by S Srinivasan | Apr 9, 2017 | Business Agility, Mindfulness
We have all heard, seen, and some of us have even experienced the benefits of a self organizing team. You hear all the time about the push by organizations towards self organizing teams, more so in the tech sector. Despite all its benefits, very few organizations have...
by S Srinivasan | Feb 13, 2017 | Chow
Shyam was an offshore business head in a large technology company, Big Tech Inc. Big Tech had recently acquired a focussed company called Nimble Verifiers. Shyam was given the accountability to take over Nimble Verifiers and integrate them with Big Boss. The team at ...
by S Srinivasan | Nov 20, 2016 | Chow
Over the years, as a leader, you have implemented the bell-curve approach to performance management. When you started as a first time manager, you hated doing the year end ritual- because you were forced to bucket a given quota in the top bracket, and some in the...
by S Srinivasan | Aug 23, 2016 | Mindfulness
In Part I of this blog – I had looked at a possible way of construing the tango of being mindful and being concerned about risk. So, it seems like that the cocktail of being mindful and also being concerned about risk, appears explosive. So, is there a...
by S Srinivasan | Aug 10, 2016 | Mindfulness
When we notice the literature and trends in management, there’s a huge shift towards mindful leadership. When you reach out to the millennial workforce, they more than the earlier generation, are looking for the leadership to be mindful. So what impact could it...
by S Srinivasan | May 3, 2016 | Chow
Over the last 15 years, Raj has been working successfully in a product engineering company. He has grown up the ranks – starting as a trainee to now managing a product line. He works in the Indian software centre of a large corporation, enabling his colleagues in...
