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Re-wiring for Agility

Re-wiring for Agility

Introduction “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” – an often-quoted one-liner from Albert Einstein. It always made sense to me logically, yet I found myself caught in this insanity loop. When I reflected on my...
CHOW #296: Backlog Blinkers

CHOW #296: Backlog Blinkers

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...
Trend log, no backlog

Trend log, no backlog

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...
CHOW #268 – Who do you support?

CHOW #268 – Who do you support?

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...
Four lessons learnt while coaching leaders

Four lessons learnt while coaching leaders

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...