by S Vasudev | Dec 25, 2018 | Project Management
In the late eighties we were working on an enhanced version of the InstaPlan, a project management software for IBM PC Compatibles. Those were the days before the advent of email, the Product Manager was located in the US and the development team in India. We used to...
by S Vasudev | Aug 28, 2018 | Chow
Pradeep is a Scrum Master for the team that you have been coaching. In your 1-on-1 with him he shares with you his view of the team. After a spurt of improvements over the initial few sprints, it appears that the team is not making similar progress. They are doing...
by S Vasudev | Aug 28, 2018 | Agile, Coaching
The title may have intrigued you, here is how it evolved. A few teams that I coach wanted to know about Scaling Agile and particularly Scaled Agile Framework and I was thinking on how best to introduce that in a contextual manner. The patterns I had seen emerge...
by S Vasudev | May 21, 2018 | Agile, Coaching
Coaching Agile teams provides one with a few extraordinary moments that make you go wow! I am sharing one such event in this blog when I saw self-organization manifest at a different level. As part of a coaching assignment at an organization, I was asked to help a...
by S Vasudev | May 21, 2018 | Chow
Team Gliders have adopted Scrum a few months back. All team members were new to Agile/Scrum, they attended a two-day workshop to get to speed. The charter of the team is to provide enhancements to different applications, in a suite of Trading applications. Team...
by S Vasudev | Jan 8, 2018 | Agile, Chow
Deepak was a tech lead who moved to the role of the Scrum Master. He took up the role with great confidence after getting trained and certified as a Scrum Master and reading up a few tomes on Agile Scrum. The initial days were challenging as the team and the...
by S Vasudev | Jan 8, 2018 | Agile
In my last blog I had shared the first of the two common patterns that I have encountered in my Agile Coaching experience related to the cadence of the team, here I am sharing the second one. The scrum team has a well-defined backlog and good clarity on what is...
by S Vasudev | Oct 16, 2017 | Chow
Prasad the Agile coach for a team, has coached the “Enchanters” scrum team for a couple months and has completed the initial Agile Maturity Assessment. The team was slow to change at the beginning, but Prasad with his interventions has been able to turn around the...
by S Vasudev | Oct 16, 2017 | Agile
I have seen two patterns in my Agile Coaching experience, I am sharing the first one in this blog, the other will follow soon. The Scrum team has a large number of items in its Product backlog, typically they are doing enhancements, to a fairly mature product-line...
by S Vasudev | Jul 10, 2017 | Chow
Wise Eagles (WE) and Bright Kites (BK) are two teams located in India and US and share just a few overlap hours. BK need to use/ work on code that was developed by the WE in the past. Team members from BK often reach out to WE team members to get specific details on...
