by Harish Achappa Kallira | Dec 5, 2016 | Chow
Shamsad is a product owner and is part of a team that has adopted agile. Their team is working on developing APIs for their product which consists of many components. Their team interacts with each of the component interfaces and writes APIs to meet external client...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | Dec 5, 2016 | Agile
Many teams undergoing agile transformation adapt to stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives well. The first significant challenge that teams face in their transformation is during their release planning. Agile practices nudge teams towards understanding the...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | Aug 7, 2016 | Agile, Project Management
Agile transformation journeys typically get started with goals that may strive to reduce cycle time, bring predictability to software development, reduce defects and risks to business. The most challenging, and impacting part of this journey is to introduce lasting...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | Jun 16, 2016 | Chow
Nitin is a director in a large company responsible for many applications. Business is highly demanding in requests for changes in response to market feedback as well as to test their ideas. Nitin’s teams have started following agile from the last couple of years – and...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | May 17, 2016 | Chow
Divya is a business analyst – working with clients, understanding requirements and ensuring that is understood by the team when they build. She has eight years experience and has been working in teams that you manage for the past couple of years. She has reached out...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | May 17, 2016 | Agile
In the introductory blog on Design Thinking, we saw how LEVER provides a contextual structure to practice Design Thinking in many situations. We had also touched briefly upon why an effective process along with relevant tools is required to make practicing Design...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | Apr 25, 2016 | Chow
Lets take a drive around how teams are operating in a distributed environment. I am sure a lot of us would have been meeting people remotely. This challenge is to take collaboration a step further. Roopa, a seasoned manager has got started on a small but interesting...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | Apr 25, 2016 | Chow
Lets take a drive around how teams are operating in a distributed environment. I am sure a lot of us would have been meeting people remotely. This challenge is to take collaboration a step further. Roopa, a seasoned manager has got started on a small but interesting...
by Harish Achappa Kallira | Apr 25, 2016 | Agile
Design Thinking has gained a lot of traction these days, and rightly so – with it being seen as having the potential for companies to create value for their clients better. While Design Thinking is not a new term – the reasons for its recent prominence...