by Paramu Kurumathur | May 6, 2022 | Chow
An enterprise exists to deliver value to its stakeholders. Continuous delivery of value to stakeholders is the mantra that industry leaders now chant in their offices all day long. Now, how do they deliver this continuous value? One important aspect of creating better...
by Paramu Kurumathur | May 6, 2022 | Agile
An enterprise exists to deliver value to its stakeholders (Customers, Associates and Shareholders). Continuous delivery of value to stakeholders is the mantra that industry leaders now chant in their offices all day long. Now, how do they deliver this continuous...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Dec 10, 2021 | Chow
In the blogpost on overmanaging leaders and needy employees, we said that one of the key strategies to avoid creating needy employees is to empower them and give them autonomy. Now, while giving autonomy to our associates, we need to set the right kind of boundaries...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Dec 10, 2021 | Leadership
Yet another holiday season is upon us. The second in the vicious grip of the runaway COVID virus. We have run halfway through the Greek alphabet trying to name these ever-evolving bugs. Anyway, the word ‘vicious’ got be thinking about a vicious circle that...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Nov 1, 2021 | Agile
There are thirteen words relating to Agile hiding in the grid. The words can be left to right, right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top or diagonals (up or down). Your challenge is to find these thirteen...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Oct 5, 2021 | Agile
All clues are given as rebuses. To solve each clue look at the rebus corresponding to the clue. The answer indicated by the rebus is the solution to the clue. Note that all solutions are words related to Agile. Happy Rebusing and Crosswording! (Note that Rebuses...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Aug 30, 2021 | Agile, Business Agility
This crossword uses the theme Lean Thinking; i.e. all answers are term that are relevant to Lean Thinking. All the...
by Paramu Kurumathur | May 24, 2021 | Chow
The question is, how do you budget for Agile implementation, if at all? Please refer to the model built by PM Power Consulting mapping Stakeholder outcomes to Agile enablers here. Can you use this model to budget for Agile implementation? If so, how? Can you...
by Paramu Kurumathur | May 24, 2021 | Agile
Background This paper describes a model built by PM Power Consulting mapping Stakeholder outcomes to Agile enablers. The primary source for building the model was PM Power’s book, The Five Tantras of Enterprise Agility. Further inputs came from later inferences of PM...
