Our Perspectives

Eleven Rings for a Scrum Master

by Shiv Sivaguru | May 8, 2022 | Leadership | 2 Comments

When I read the book 'Eleven Rings: The soul of success' by Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty , the legendary basketball coach, I could relate his 11 tips for leadership as good points for Scrum Masters. With eleven titles to his credit, helping the Chicago Bulls win...

The Mantra of Enterprise Success: Delivering Stakeholder Value through Agile

by Paramu Kurumathur | May 6, 2022 | Agile | 0 Comments

An enterprise exists to deliver value to its stakeholders (Customers, Associates and Shareholders). Continuous delivery of value to stakeholders is the mantra that industry leaders now chant in their offices all day long. Now, how do they deliver this continuous...

Poring over PMBOK 7!

by Shiv Sivakumar | May 1, 2022 | Project Management | 0 Comments

Photo by Nathan Bingle on Unsplash Some time back I wrote a blog on scope management and its relevance in agile projects. A few days later, a friend stopped by for a chat and gave me a shocker, saying “why are you writing about such dated stuff like scope management?...

Three Track Lean-Agile Development: Part 3 – Solution Space

by Dr. Krishna Prasad | Apr 22, 2022 | Agile, Business Agility, Product Management, Project Management | 0 Comments

Introduction In my previous two articles Why do we need a ‘Three Track’ Lean-Agile Product Development?, and ‘Three Track’ Lean-Agile Development: Part 2 – Opportunity Space , I had introduced the idea of how the product creation process is all about transformation of...

Agile Culture and Mindset – re-visited

by J Veeraraaghavan | Apr 17, 2022 | Agile, Leadership | 0 Comments

Ever since Agile approaches became popular about 15 to 20 years ago, Agile culture and mindset have been touted as the foundation elements around which successful organizational transformation happens. Peter Drucker’s famous quote “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”...

Story points and making sense of the velocity

by S Vasudev | Apr 11, 2022 | Agile, Coaching | 0 Comments

Here is an interesting discussion between a Scrum Master, who is new in the role and the Agile Coach, sharing it as a blog to reach a wider audience and elicit different perspectives. The options shared are contextual and subjective and I know for sure there will be...

Categorizing Values (personal, life, personal + life)

by Shiv Sivakumar | Apr 9, 2022 | Personal Growth | 0 Comments

Drag each of the 16 Values on the right hand side (from the 8 pairs) and it in the drop zones - "Values in Personal Life", "Values in Student (or Work) Life" or in both. For example, if you think "Honesty" value applies to both personal and work life, you could drop...

CHOW#288 – Restoring Work-Life Balance

by Milind Rumade | Apr 3, 2022 | Agile, Chow | 0 Comments

Suvarna is the leader of a support team that supports a enterprise software for project management. Working hours for her team are from 9:00 am to 11:00 pm as they support customers in India and UK. While most of her team members work from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm which are...

Team Working Agreement – Necessity or Nice to Have?

by Milind Rumade | Apr 3, 2022 | Agile, Business Agility, Coaching | 0 Comments

Great software is created by the great teams. Therefore, building a team where team work happens naturally is a key to success with software development. Agile approaches to software development emphasize team work and advocate practices that promote collective...

CHOW#287 – The Drama of “Unplanned Leaves”

by Guruprasad | Mar 28, 2022 | Agile, Chow, Leadership | 0 Comments

Piyush works as a Manager for a team of 20 people. He has been successfully running an IT team for the last 3 years. However, he has been constantly plagued by his people going on unplanned leaves. This has been happening for the last 8-9 months or so. It also came...

Being clear on what is not Agile

by Guruprasad | Mar 26, 2022 | Agile, Coaching | 0 Comments

Many organizations today are undergoing Agile Transformation and they are in different stages of the journey. While the decisions of going Agile are being made at the Leadership level, it is not clear at the teams and management level why this decision is being made....

CHOW #286 – A clash of journeys

by Gopal Gopalan | Mar 20, 2022 | Chow, Personal Growth, Project Management | 0 Comments

Asin is a bright fresh recruit in the mid-sized organization that you lead as the CEO. She wanted to specialize in cyber security. Asin had joined with tremendous anticipation. She had picked your organization in preference to two other big names during the campus...

No Chords Without Strings

by Gopal Gopalan | Mar 20, 2022 | Personal Growth | 2 Comments

Let me narrate three observations from my life, to share something that I have learnt. The first is about my love and hate for the Tamil language. Till I finished high school, I learnt Tamil language formally. I loved Tamil poetry and the great literary works....

CHOW #285 – Unwilling developer

by Anantha Natarajan | Mar 13, 2022 | Agile, Chow, Product Management | 0 Comments

Bill is a Product Manager in a large software product firm with their development centre in India. He felt that the developers do not understand the customer’s business context enough. He spoke to Ram, Engineering Head in India, and sought volunteers to join the...

Five steps to bring developers and users closer

by Anantha Natarajan | Mar 13, 2022 | Agile, Product Management | 0 Comments

I started my career as a software developer a few decades ago as part of an enterprise IT function. I was blessed to work in new development projects using state-of-the-art technologies. While I loved the technology, I also absolutely enjoyed interacting with users. I...