by Vishu | Mar 8, 2017 | Agile
Having been part of a couple of Start-up to Scale-up journeys (both in Products and Services space) and being part of industry forums, benchmarking initiatives, and many consulting/coaching engagements, I have seen typical patters from Start-up to Scale-up of...
by Vishu | Jan 16, 2017 | Chow
Judy is a Scrum Master for an Agile team of 8 people including developers, testers and UX members. The team is working on a core platform part of the product which has an impact on all the other modules of the product. There is significant expectation on the team to...
by Vishu | Sep 5, 2016 | Chow
Rajat is recently promoted to Project Management role. He was a high performing Tech Lead in the previous avatar. He is overwhelmed by the need for juggling with too many things at a time in his new role. If he tries to focus on one thing, ten other pending things pop...
by Vishu | May 30, 2016 | Chow
Lakshman is a sensitive PM. He tries to avoid any confrontation and does not want his team members getting into a confrontation and heated debates as well. He has a 12 member team working on a major ERP implementation for a Japanese manufacturing company. There is a...
by Vishu | Apr 26, 2016 | Agile, Business Agility
A few years ago I had visited Toyota factory in Bangalore to study their famous TPS (Toyota Production System). One of the interesting points of observation was that they had a component supplier in Delhi; a truck load of components would get dispatched from...
by Vishu | Feb 22, 2016 | Mindfulness, Personal Growth
Being part of a core team (from Karnataka) developing recommendations for New Education Policy of India, I am involved in articulating why it’s important to bring more focus on Value Education. Below is an excerpt from it. In a journey, direction is more important...
by Vishu | Feb 21, 2016 | Chow
You have taken over a new team as manager. You notice that there are several behavioral issues in the team, like a few of the members not being punctual, a few others not taking responsibility, and generally team not collaborating with each other etc. This...
by Vishu | Sep 26, 2015 | Agile
There is a story about 9 blind men touching different parts of an elephant and describing it as different objects – someone touching the trunk & saying that it’s a snake, another person touching the tail and declaring it as rope, yet another feeling the leg &...
by Vishu | Aug 29, 2015 | Mindfulness
“The leader of the past knows how to tell. The leader of the future knows how to ask.” – Peter Drucker Think about this: When you make a statement, you will not know whether the intended audience received it or not. Whereas when you ask a question and the audience...
by Vishu | Nov 9, 2014 | Agile, Leadership, Personal Growth, Project Management
Leaders have only two jobs: 1) Getting work done 2) Growing the people Coaching as a leadership/management style achieves both. With Command & Control approach, managers may get the work done in the short term, by force. But that might have negative impacts on...
