by A Narasimhan | Mar 13, 2018 | Agile, Chow
Venkat is the Scrum Master of ScrumGods, a team which has consistently been praised by all as a very Agile team. They did all their ceremonies without fail and team members collaborate well and their artefacts are all highly visible and so on. After a few months, some...
by A Narasimhan | Mar 13, 2018 | Agile
In every organization where I have coached several teams for periods of six months or more, I have found a few teams which stand out. It could be due to a dynamic Scrum Master or a sensible and knowledgeable Product Owner or a few motivated smart team members. These...
by A Narasimhan | Nov 20, 2017 | Chow
Krishna is the Scrum Master of Svatantra, a team known for its Agility and efficiency. He and his team were coached by external coaches for a while and now they have stopped coming. He has empowered his team and several members can moderate Agile ceremonies and hence...
by A Narasimhan | Nov 20, 2017 | Agile
Agile Transformation is not just putting in place a set of ceremonies and processes but it should bring about a change in the culture of the organization. It is found inevitable in organizations that such transformation efforts need expert coaching at all levels....
by A Narasimhan | Aug 6, 2017 | Chow
BlockBusters is a team using Kanban. They have been getting noticed of late for missed SLAs and defective deliveries. There were some changes in the team as new members have joined the team and some additional support work has got added to their existing work. In the...
by A Narasimhan | Aug 6, 2017 | Agile, Project Management
Limiting Work In Process (WIP) is very important for Agile teams and is highly recommended for Kanban teams as they are focused on identifying and removing blocks and thereby improving flow. Here are some benefits of limiting WIP observed in teams I have coached....
by A Narasimhan | Mar 13, 2017 | Agile
While there are many important aspects that help in successful adoption of Agile, I would like to write about one of them here and that is ‘a compelling reason for continuous improvement’. While some situations might force teams to take to Agile, I believe a reason...
by A Narasimhan | Mar 13, 2017 | Chow
Vijay is the Scrum Master of an operations team providing 24-hr support for various software products. They had few retrospectives but somehow the improvements were not well translated into action items and some of them were not even acted upon. But no one would...
by A Narasimhan | Oct 24, 2016 | Chow
Suri has just attended a two-day training on Product Ownership and has been made the Product owner of the Database support team. The team supports various Database products in the enterprise and work in multiple shifts. They have started using Kanban for the past...
by A Narasimhan | Oct 24, 2016 | Agile
Kanban is less prescriptive than Scrum and does not specify roles such as Scrum master or Product Owner. Sometimes there is a role of Board Owner but it is not really a Product Owner. Also no ceremonies such as Planning, Retrospective or Backlog Refinement are...
