by JV 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 JV 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 JV 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 JV 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...
by JV Veeraraaghavan | May 6, 2019 | Chow
Omega systems worldwide Inc. is a Software Platform and Solutions provider in the areas of Customer Relationship Management and Healthcare systems. They have been in the Agile/Scrum journey for over 5 years now. While they have achieved a fair degree of consistency...
by JV Veeraraaghavan | May 6, 2019 | Agile
The original agile manifesto has been around for nearly two decades now and at a fundamental level, proclaims the core values that Agile stands for. The values of individual interactions, customer collaboration and responsiveness to customer requirements and changes...
by JV Veeraraaghavan | Dec 11, 2018 | Chow
Finsys Inc. is a software products and services provider in the insurance and financial services space based out of Boston, MA. Product teams in India for Finsys have been working for the international market using Agile/Scrum during the last two years. The product...
by JV Veeraraaghavan | Dec 11, 2018 | Agile
Most of my recent engagements with large corporates moving over to Agile or scaling with Agile have had major challenges in implementation. This has been in no small measure due to them continuing with traditional organization structure thinking even while moving to...
by JV Veeraraaghavan | Aug 7, 2018 | Chow
KillerApps Solutions is a software products and services provider in the banking, cargo, and travel verticals. Product teams in India have been working for the international market during the last two years. Teams have delivered two releases of products in each of the...
by JV Veeraraaghavan | Aug 7, 2018 | Agile
Over the years, story points have been used by Agile teams as a relative size measure for user stories. With a relative measure there is no such thing as a unit and so a story point does not equate to any unit (such as person days of effort). It is intended purely as...
