by S Srinivasan | Jul 27, 2019 | Agile
In my experience I have noticed that it’s very easy to understand what OKR stands for. Further when you have heard of nimble companies of varying sizes from Google to Spotify have implemented, you think you have hit the holy grail. To some extent, I think the above...
by S Srinivasan | Mar 18, 2019 | Agile, Chow
Daniel looks after the supply chain product in a 60-year-old company. He reports into the Chief Information Officer. Currently the systems run on a traditional mainframe with some interfaces to the external world using UNIX gateways. The software is developed and...
by S Srinivasan | Mar 17, 2019 | Agile
Any enterprise agile transformation needs to accept openly the challenges that exist in building a cross-functional team. In my experience these are genuine concerns and challenges. How well you address them, make trade-offs, or sweep under the carpet will go a long...
by S Srinivasan | Oct 22, 2018 | Chow
This team has been working as an Agile scrum team for over 6 months now. They were working on a two-week sprint till now. There’s a clamor to make it a three-week sprint. What do you recommend the scrum master do in this case? Or how should he approach this ask? A...
by S Srinivasan | Oct 22, 2018 | Agile
Is there a possible common way to measure Agility? I would “dare say” yes, we could sense Agility. So, if you sense agility the only way to measure is by getting the perspective of the stakeholders. Yes, you can supplement it with the business measures and metrics....
by S Srinivasan | Jul 25, 2018 | Chow
Randy has built his career in Fincorp over the last 15 years. He is well regarded for his impeccable ability to deliver. About 8 years ago, Randy was instrumental in building and delivering after-the-fact analytics. His team members worked very closely with him...
by S Srinivasan | Jul 25, 2018 | Agile
There’s a lot an organization can learn from the early experiment of the CIO/ CTO’s office to embrace agility, as it decides to drive agility as the new way of working in the entire organization. Here are five things that an organization needs to consider as it...
by S Srinivasan | Feb 26, 2018 | Chow, Project Management
Background Company PH is a service provider to customer MG. PH is currently managing 50% of MG’s IT and three other vendors are managing the remaining. There are 100’s of projects every year that’s bid by these vendors to deliver. A little bit about...
by S Srinivasan | Feb 26, 2018 | Project Management
All of us work on projects of different types, size and shape. So, when someone says there’s a risk that we cannot complete this story in the current sprint – we look for alternatives. Can we break that story into two smaller slices? We then include the slice that is...
by S Srinivasan | Oct 24, 2017 | Chow
Shanks was the 10th employee of his company. Over the last 10 years it has grown to a 1000 strong organization. He’s now been made the head of the Program Management Office. Just prior to this he was based in the US managing customer relationships. In his new...
