by Guruprasad | Jun 17, 2022 | Agile
(Pic Courtesy: ITPro Today) When Agile movement started roughly 15-16 years back, there were multiple reasons why Organizations latched on to it. One is the novelty factor. Agile was a new buzz word then and there was a sense of “Cool”ness associated in...
by Guruprasad | Jun 16, 2022 | Chow
Satish is a new Manager with Keaton International. Keaton is a large Financial Organization with its presence in more than 20 countries. They have a large software unit in India, where they support all the IT needs of the organization. Keaton is known for its culture...
by Guruprasad | Mar 28, 2022 | Agile, Chow, Leadership
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...
by Guruprasad | Mar 26, 2022 | Agile, Coaching
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....
by Guruprasad | Nov 15, 2021 | Agile, Chow, Leadership
Padma works as a Project Manager in the IT division of one of the reputed retail organizations. She has always been quite ambitious and loved to take risks. She was one of the go-to Managers when it comes to taking up new and complex projects. Because of her risk...
by Guruprasad | Nov 9, 2021 | Agile, Leadership
Images have the power to inspire. And as human beings, we connect to images and stories around those much faster than we connect to words. When I began Agile transformation with one of the business units for my client organization, I thought of using these images....
by Guruprasad | Aug 2, 2021 | Chow
Pic Credit: Music vector created by pch.vector – www.freepik.com Sukriti had joined as a new Scrum Master for a team that worked for internal technology group of a Financial Services Organization. She had come from a products-based organization that was known in...
by Guruprasad | Aug 2, 2021 | Agile
Pic Credit: PartnersInLeadership and Agile42 “Agile transformation is not just about doing daily Scrum or using a tool like JIRA, it is a cultural change”. How often have we heard this in the last 15 years. And there are only handful of companies that have...
by Guruprasad | Apr 14, 2021 | Agile, Leadership
When Toyota succeeded in their change efforts and started doing roaring business during the early part of 2000s, the secret of their success pointed to be their adoption of Lean Management. Post Toyota’s success, many companies tried replicating this approach without...
by Guruprasad | Apr 14, 2021 | Chow
Devina heads the HR department of a large investment bank in India. She had heard about Agile but thought that it was more of a skillset required in the IT department. Her company is in the process of undergoing Enterprise Agile Transformation and was moving in the...