by Savitha K | Jul 14, 2020 | Coaching, Personal Growth, Project Management, Uncategorised
Most of the IT organizations are onboarding their new joinees remotely. It is one of the most critical activities for any organization. The process of assimilating a new joinee includes imbibing the new org culture, getting to know people, and feeling that “I am...
by Savitha K | Jul 14, 2020 | Chow
Payel is a Scrum master and has been coaching a team for almost three months. She has been able to implement agile practices and do it well, mostly. In Retrospective meetings, she was able to get people to talk about what went well and what did not go well. But most...
by Savitha K | Feb 12, 2020 | Agile, Chow
Kumar is an agile coach with tremendous coaching experience. He had joined an MNC recently as an agile coach and coaching multiple teams. But the organization went through a transformation and now he is part of a central team of coaches. He was excited as he could...
by Savitha K | Feb 9, 2020 | Agile
Organization agility is all about culture, and then making a shift requires cultural change. Organizational Culture has often been identified as one of the main challenges in the adoption of agile values and principles. Consequently, organizations may...
by Savitha K | Nov 19, 2019 | Chow
Ashok has been hired as an DevOps consultant to implement DevOps practices. He did an assessment of the team to understand the current practices and ways of working. After that, he proposed to the leadership team and product teams to have development team, QA team and...
by Savitha K | Nov 18, 2019 | Digital Transformation
There seems to be a growing misinterpretation of DevOps. When we hear the word DevOps, the first thing that comes to our mind is automation; continuous deployment, continuous build, and associated toolsets or we think of development and operations teams sitting...
by Savitha K | Apr 9, 2019 | Chow
Aman was a newly hired scrum master in the organization. He realized that there were other Scrum Masters who were partially doing this role and doing technical work rest of the time. He had a conversation with his manager to understand why his role was different and...
by Savitha K | Apr 9, 2019 | Agile
Most of us would have watched the movie Kung Fu Panda. In the movie, the fighting style Kung Fu was represented and taught as 4 moves whereas Kung Fu has at least 100 moves. Each move has a purpose and the master would choose the right one based on the context....
by Savitha K | Nov 27, 2018 | Agile, Chow
Rajiv has been working as a scrum master and coaching the teams after getting trained. Management and teams think that Scrum Master is like a secretary who just books the meeting rooms, facilitates daily meetings and helps with some tasks when team asks for it. Rajiv...
by Savitha K | Nov 27, 2018 | Agile, Coaching
I started my agile journey as an agile team member couple of years back, where I was assigned to a pilot team which was part of large agile transformation initiative. Once the initiative was kicked off, all the pilot project team members were trained on agile (what is...
