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...
by Savitha K | Jul 31, 2018 | Chow
Deepak is an Agile coach and has some really good implementation experience with large clients. He joined a new company which is into IT services and have a centralized Agile CoE. He was very excited when he started with the new company as he was ready to move on to...
by Savitha K | Jul 31, 2018 | Agile
Distributed teams are a norm in today’s world and it is also beneficial from business perspective. Ideally Agile is imagined to be clustered teams, physically in one location. For many distributed teams, it’s difficult to adopt the Agile practice of face-to-face...
by Savitha K | Apr 3, 2018 | Chow
Raj has been designated as product owner for the e-commerce website that the company is building. He was a business analyst and used to writing requirements document in the traditional SDLC [waterfall] model. This team was following Agile practices and he now needed...
by Savitha K | Apr 2, 2018 | Agile
When I started my journey in agile coaching, the toughest thing to do was to help teams internalize cultural changes be they a small change such as teams coming to meetings on time or transformation such as creating high performing self-organized teams. As we all...
by Savitha K | Dec 4, 2017 | Chow
Ria is a new scrum master and she has trained , certified as a scrum master. When she starts facilitating stand up meetings, the meeting always run over. Team starts discussion and hence they are not able to finish it within 15 min. Team tells her that without these...
by Savitha K | Dec 4, 2017 | Agile
In common usage or if you have been coming from years and years of management, it probably has negative connotation, as “he/she has been slacking off”. As a manager, he is considered successful only if everyone in the team is fully loaded with tasks and he has...
