by Milind Rumade | Aug 9, 2020 | Agile, Project Management
In my previous blog, “Project without a Deadline does not complete”; we looked at the importance of starting a project with an end date in mind. In this blog, we are going to explore this subject of deadlines further and see how to make the deadlines effective. A...
by Milind Rumade | Jun 29, 2020 | Agile, Project Management
At one stage of my career, I was leading a CoE (Centre of Excellence) for Project Management. I was good at Project Management, I had used it for delivering my projects successfully and experienced its importance. Now I was entrusted with helping others acquire...
by Milind Rumade | Jun 21, 2020 | Chow
Manish has taken up the role of a Scrum Master in a new team which has recently adopted Agile. The team is responsible for support and maintenance of a very important enterprise application and has adopted iteration based delivery model. All the support and...
by Milind Rumade | Jan 7, 2020 | Chow
Mahesh is a new scrum master who has recently joined a scrum team. Team has experienced team members who have delivered software successfully in the past. They are quite confident in the technology being used in the project. They follow scrum practices mechanically....
by Milind Rumade | Jan 7, 2020 | Leadership
IT industry in India is a young industry. Percentage of younger people employed in this industry, is much higher compared to other industries. Average age of an IT project team is around 25 years. To keep the costs down this industry recruits fresh graduates,...
by Milind Rumade | Jul 22, 2019 | Chow
Ajit is a scrum master with some experience in leading an agile team. He has been assigned to a new team and he finds the team in the middle of their first sprint planning meeting. The product owner (PO) is relatively new to his role and has gone through the required...
by Milind Rumade | Jul 22, 2019 | Leadership
I did B.E. in Electrical engineering from VJTI, Mumbai University. As electrical engineers we studied electrical motors, generators, transformers, electrical power generation and distribution etc, etc. . . However, I did not like any of the electrical...
by Milind Rumade | Mar 11, 2019 | Chow
Shubham and I headed towards office cafeteria to have a cup of tea. I had not seen him for some time. “Where were you last week”, I asked him. “I was busy with an urgent delivery. Did not have time even for a tea-break”, Shubham said. Shubham is a smart, intelligent,...
by Milind Rumade | Mar 11, 2019 | Agile
Diwali was approaching and our unit decided to celebrate Diwali in office. As part of the celebration, some games were arranged. Ten teams were formed, each containing about ten people. Then the hostess announced an interesting competition. The teams were to collect...
