by Shiv Sivaguru | Apr 15, 2016 | Chow
Judy, the newest member in the team that you are the Scrum Master for, walks up to you to discuss a challenge she has been facing. After her first week of self study of project artefacts, and understanding the coding standards, the source file structures in the...
by Shiv Sivaguru | Jan 31, 2016 | Chow
You are transitioning support and maintenance of a legacy application from the customer to an onsite/offshore team. The customer has asked you to provide a plan for the Knowledge Transfer (KT) phase comprising: – Number of people onsite (assume New York City),...
by Shiv Sivaguru | Jan 28, 2016 | Business Agility
In previous posts, I had shared the technology and process trends. One common theme across the two is related to better teamwork and collaboration across organizational silos. In this post, I want to share three significant concepts that, when combined with the...
by Shiv Sivaguru | Jan 23, 2016 | Chow
You are the Project Manager for developing a new web-based application for a customer that will replace a series of linked Excel spreadsheets. Senior managers in the customer organization are keen on having this done as they are frustrated by issues arising from lack...
by Shiv Sivaguru | Jan 18, 2016 | Business Agility
Software development used to be known as just software programming in the 1940s. The classic book by Nikolas Wirth in the 1970s – Algorithms + Data structures = Programs, looked beyond the code written into the larger picture of data structure and algorithms. As the...
by Shiv Sivaguru | Jan 17, 2016 | Agile
2015 had many new milestones related to technology. One such was IoT – or Internet of Things. I was amused by the nomenclature when I first heard of this – why ‘things’ – usually, to me, a thing is inanimate, that we use. While it can do something, I wouldn’t call it...
by Shiv Sivaguru | Jan 12, 2016 | Digital Transformation
This is probably the most frequently asked question that I have received. In many sessions when I introduce the concept of DevOps and some characteristics, after the first 30 minutes or so, the question is a variation of: – We are already agile. all this sounds...
by Shiv Sivaguru | Oct 22, 2015 | Business Agility
We all live in our pods. The externally visible pods of our associations with families, workplaces, social circles, professional circles play a major role in influencing what we do and how we do. Just like sitting in a Ferris wheel, we let the events pass us by...
by Shiv Sivaguru | Oct 22, 2015 | Agile
One of the key enablers for organizational excellence is management of collective knowledge. An Excellent organization would not only have defined its Mission, Vision and supporting values that act as guidance in how it wants to go about its business, but also...
by Shiv Sivaguru | Jul 1, 2015 | Agile
I came across this classification of defects in a book called Total Quality Management for Software, Edited by Gordon Schulmeyer and James I McManus. You might find it interesting. A – Algorithm B – Blunder C – Cleanup D – Data E – Efficiency F – Forgotten G –...
