by Savitha K | Nov 8, 2021 | Agile, Coaching, Project Management
With yearend approaching, most of the organization or the team, or each of us are trying to rewind, assess, understand how the year went, and start planning for 2022. One of the tools that most agile coaches and scrum masters use is Agile maturity assessment. An agile...
by Savitha K | Nov 8, 2021 | Agile, Chow
CHOW 271: Lack of planning – Is Agile the reason? Kavya is a new project manager in an MNC. The project was asked to run in an agile mode. As in most projects, the Backlog was not detailed and only high-level one-line requirements were available. Business...
by Savitha K | Aug 16, 2021 | Agile, Chow, Product Management
Murugan joined an organization as a Scrum master. One of the teams that he was asked to coach has been in running mode at a fast pace for 2 months already. The team has been doing basic agile practices such as having a time-boxed work commitment, daily standup, and...
by Savitha K | Aug 16, 2021 | Personal Growth
The past 2 years have been a roller coaster ride for most of us. It gave us opportunities to relearn some of our forgotten skills or explore new areas through virtual learning platforms. It is not only individuals re-looking at learning methods but also every...
by Savitha K | May 23, 2021 | Agile, Coaching
Most of us would have read about the recent ransomware hit on Colonial pipeline, one of the largest oil pipelines in the US. They had to temporarily halt all the operations, it impacted some of the company’s IT system and suffered a huge loss. It took almost a week to...
by Savitha K | May 23, 2021 | Chow
Harshita is a scrum master for a team. With the Covid situation across India, the team has been dull and in a very somber state. As a scrum master, she could understand and relate to the situation that the team has been going through. At an organization level, there...
by Savitha K | Nov 29, 2020 | Chow
Pravin has been coaching the development team for a few months on the implementation of Scrum. There were a lot of improvement ideas and opportunities that he and his team gathered for the Product team, operation teams during the retrospective. When he tried speaking...
by Savitha K | Nov 29, 2020 | Agile, Coaching
Last week, Scrum celebrated 25 years, and to add to that celebration, a new scrum guide was released. Over the years, Scrum has been implemented across multiple industries and domains and the feedback of its success and failures flowed back into this new Scrum guide....
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...
