by S Vasudev | May 10, 2017 | Agile, Coaching
Agile Scrum teams that I have interacted with have their team norms or working agreements in place. This is in place either at the start, or within a few sprints. Typically, it starts with an attempt to address some aspect of collaboration within the team. The team...
by S Vasudev | Apr 24, 2017 | Chow
Shweta has taken up the role of the Scrum Master with the Wise-Eagles team. The team has one BA, three developers and two QA. The BA and developers are based in Bangalore and so is the SM, QA is based out of Hyderabad. The PO is in Ireland. The team had been...
by S Vasudev | Apr 24, 2017 | Agile
I have often come across this question, especially from folks in organizations that have started adopting agile and have made some progress. Should each Scrum team member develop/possess all the skills required for the project? When hiring new team members should we...
by S Vasudev | Oct 31, 2016 | Chow
You are Sangeetha, the delivery manager for a product. There are three scrum teams working for the product located in Bangalore, Dublin (Ireland) and Salt Lake City (US), with the PO located in Salt Lake City. The recent retrospective has surfaced this issue, which...
by S Vasudev | Mar 14, 2016 | Chow
You could be a Scrum Master or a Team Member in a Scrum team. Everything is going well, except that the work remaining is not getting updated in the tool you are using. The team members forget to update, delay the updates. As a result though you learn a lot on what...
by S Vasudev | Feb 29, 2016 | Chow
You are a manager for a team that is working on a Product. Your fairly large team, is responsible for: adding features providing fixes to existing issues working on a new architecture You have to deal with three different stakeholders for these three initiatives and...
by S Vasudev | Dec 1, 2015 | Personal Growth, Project Management
When we started on the journey of PM Competency Development using our ProMentor Framework, one of the inputs was the assessment of the individual. This was done based on formal inputs from their managers, using custom in-house instruments; as well as a self...
by S Vasudev | Oct 20, 2015 | Agile, Coaching
One of the Scrum Masters I was coaching had brought up the issue of the team members not clued into/or caring much for the team’s velocity. The team was very capable, the team members would participate passionately in the Sprint Planning, try to ensure that they...
by S Vasudev | Sep 29, 2015 | Business Agility, Leadership
Sharing a serendipitous innovation that helped in effective group communication for absent members. In one of my earlier roles, we used to have a Group communication meet every last Friday of the month. This meeting was a mandatory meeting, with important...
