by J Veeraraaghavan | May 9, 2021 | Chow
Ashish Agarwal, VP of Engineering Services for IOU India Pvt Ltd., the Indian Engineering services arm for IOU Inc. in the US, was doing his Department reviews with his Directors. This is his first monthly review meeting since joining the company about a month ago....
by J Veeraraaghavan | May 8, 2021 | Leadership, Uncategorised
In my long career I have been fortunate to work for some great managers. In the 15 years of experience as a coach, I have interacted with managers who have been my coachees, as well as their (coachees’) managers. I have done some analysis of the working styles of all...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Jan 8, 2021 | Agile
One of the most significant issues that I have faced in Agile coaching engagements has been with respect to making and fulfilling commitments. Estimates provide the basis / input for making commitments. If you have poor estimates, your problem in meeting commitments...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Jan 8, 2021 | Chow
Sharada is the Scrum Master for the team that delivers the Case Management module for NextGenPlatform Inc’s Digital Transformation platform. The team finished their release planning three weeks ago and completed the product increment for their first sprint last...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Aug 2, 2020 | Chow
Indus Mercantile bank is your customer headquartered in Delhi. Garima is their Director of IT based in Delhi. You are the Project Manager responsible for delivering a Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management solution for them. You need to work with a Partner, Global...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Aug 2, 2020 | Agile
I have often been asked a question about why people rarely talk about a formal risk management process with Agile. From my own long coaching experience, I have given a lot of reasons and examples to answer this question but decided to pick the following five as being...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Mar 5, 2020 | Agile
Success stories with Agile are not as common and as consistent as you would expect them to be, considering that Agile implementation has been around for a while now. While there are many reasons for this, one less talked about reason relates to addressing the concerns...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Mar 4, 2020 | Chow
We all know about the use of burn down and burn up charts as part of tracking sprints and release level commitments. One of the issues that most organizations face while they implement agile / scrum is to get the team to update data on a daily basis (in terms of...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Sep 9, 2019 | Chow
Universal Customer Care is a platform and service provider in the area of Customer Relationship Management. Their upcoming release of their software platform involves four different scrum teams working on four different components with co-ordination at a release level...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Sep 9, 2019 | Agile
Over the last several years of my Agile coaching experience, I have been asked many times about how governance works with Agile and what metrics should management use to ensure the “appropriate” level of governance. While I must admit that I often used to wonder why...
