by J Veeraraaghavan | Jul 31, 2022 | Chow
NetForYou is a product engineering organization developing networking solutions. They have been in business for more than 20 years. As the CEO of the organization, Vishwanath has taken empowerment to heart, repeatedly reinforcing it in communicating to his direct...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Jul 31, 2022 | Agile, Business Agility, Leadership, Uncategorised
The term “Empowerment” has been bandied about for several decades – much before Agile approaches became popular. With Agile and self-managed teams, empowerment has almost become a sacred mantra at both a team level as well as in an organizational context. Yet, when...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Apr 17, 2022 | Agile, Leadership
Ever since Agile approaches became popular about 15 to 20 years ago, Agile culture and mindset have been touted as the foundation elements around which successful organizational transformation happens. Peter Drucker’s famous quote “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Apr 17, 2022 | Chow
Look at the following two situations – one coming from implementation of XP and one from Scrum. Situation 1 The Principle of Mutual Benefit in XP says that every activity that you do as part of software development should benefit all concerned – now and later...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Jan 14, 2022 | Chow
Here are three most often asked questions / challenges organizations face (in estimation and related aspects) when they go through a major transformation to Agile. How would you address them / approach the challenges? We have implemented relative sizing approaches at...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Jan 14, 2022 | Agile
One of the most discussed and explored topics in the software industry, arguably the most, has to be estimation. I have enjoyed coaching teams on how to use different approaches / techniques in their Agile context. Needless to say, I have learned a lot doing that....
by J Veeraraaghavan | Aug 29, 2021 | Chow
Marshall Communications Inc. was a large telecom services provider and has a 35% market share in this business. However, they are threatened by their nearest competitors who have narrowed the gap between them and Marshall during the last few years by going aggressive...
by J Veeraraaghavan | Aug 29, 2021 | Agile, Leadership
The trigger for this blog is a blog I recently came across written by a developer on failures with agile. He had actually talked about why organizations are bound to fail with Agile. This was a very strong message but I must say that the author had lots of valid...
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...
