by Anantha Natarajan | May 29, 2022 | Business Agility, Chow
Bill is a Product Manager in a large software product firm, which has decades of leadership in their target segment. He has over 20 years of experience at this company and has excellent relationship with the major customers of the product. John, the new CEO, had come...
by Anantha Natarajan | May 29, 2022 | Business Agility
In my opinion, one of the most overused words in the software industry is ‘innovation’. I understand there is a wide spectrum of enhancements that can be called ‘innovations’ – minor enhancement that improves a business process to a module that supports a new business...
by Anantha Natarajan | Mar 13, 2022 | Agile, Chow, Product Management
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...
by Anantha Natarajan | Mar 13, 2022 | Agile, Product Management
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...
by Anantha Natarajan | Feb 6, 2022 | Agile, Chow
Mike is a highly experienced product manager in E-CRM, large enterprise software organization. E-CRM has been successful over the last 15 years in selling their enterprise grade CRM solution to businesses primarily in their premises. E-CRM’s leadership has launched an...
by Anantha Natarajan | Feb 6, 2022 | Agile
For new age companies born in the cloud era, their development approach has always been in tune with the demands of cloud delivery and their user base. For software product vendors with enterprise-grade solutions, transitioning to the cloud can be quite a challenge....
by Anantha Natarajan | Oct 17, 2021 | Agile, Chow
You are an agile coach working with a group of middle managers as part of an enterprise transformation effort. There are coaches at senior leadership level up in the hierarchy and lower in the scrum team level. Middle managers are going about the transformation effort...
by Anantha Natarajan | Oct 17, 2021 | Agile
I have been working with leaders in the last few years as an agile coach. When I say ‘leaders’, these are people in middle management roles in large corporates. Intent of this blog is to share some of the lessons I learnt in the process. In the agile world, it is...
by Anantha Natarajan | Jun 19, 2021 | Agile, Chow
After a leadership awareness session on Continuous Planning & Continuous Delivery, Ram walks up to the coach with a puzzled look. Continuous Planning is expected to help the unit respond faster in a dynamic environment and focus on delivering value. The unit that...
by Anantha Natarajan | Jun 19, 2021 | Agile
Continuous delivery is a common practice in the software world today enabled by test automation and CI/CD tool chain. Usually, Continuous delivery is well-supported upstream but continuous ‘value’ remains a challenge. How do we address this challenge? Ideally,...
