by S Vasudev | Aug 16, 2020 | Agile, Coaching, Leadership, Personal Growth
Image courtesy: Mykl Roventine at https://www.flickr.com/photos/64419960@N00/4143699557 Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is key for one to be successful, especially so for leaders. A person with higher EQ will respond to a situation over reacting to it. To quote Viktor E...
by S Vasudev | Apr 7, 2020 | Chow
Manoj is a Scrum Master your fellow coach Swamy has coached in the past. Swamy has moved on to another organization. You bump into him at the cafeteria and have a short conversation with him. He says he has been wanting to talk to you to seek some inputs from you....
by S Vasudev | Apr 6, 2020 | Agile
I had shared my experience with Agile Maturity Assessments a while ago, the key challenge over a period of time was the lack of enthusiasm due to it being a repeat exercise, no noveltythe teams progress towards the maturity slowing down as they achieve maturity, no...
by S Vasudev | Sep 23, 2019 | Chow
You are the Scrum Master of the Maven’s team and you are happy. You were able to make the Product Owner, Meenakshi understand the necessity to include the technical stories and the technical debt items in the Product Backlog. The technical story or rather the...
by S Vasudev | Sep 23, 2019 | Agile, Coaching
Well it is and it is not. If the defect is going to be fixed right away it is not a technical debt, and if team chooses to let it remain and plans to address it later, it can be termed a technical debt. The assumption being that the impact of the defect is...
by S Vasudev | May 20, 2019 | Chow
Sagar is a Scrum Master (SM) of Pacifica Scrum Team since Sprint 19 and they are currently into Sprint 26. Sagar shares that their retrospectives are not impactful. They do get good inputs and discuss, but they end the meeting with an overwhelming sense of not being...
by S Vasudev | May 20, 2019 | Agile, Coaching
Trust is the foundation for any high performing team. Trust takes time to get established. Some of us start with trusting everyone till we sense otherwise and feel betrayed. Some of us start by not trusting anyone and wait for trust to get established. Given this wide...
by S Vasudev | Dec 25, 2018 | Chow
One of the Agile Scrum teams that I was coaching Agile Artisans was doing pretty well and I felt had matured enough to be on their own. I was paying less attention to them. They had achieved a good velocity in the recent completed Sprint 14. it was quite high compared...
by S Vasudev | Dec 25, 2018 | Project Management
In the late eighties we were working on an enhanced version of the InstaPlan, a project management software for IBM PC Compatibles. Those were the days before the advent of email, the Product Manager was located in the US and the development team in India. We used to...
by S Vasudev | Aug 28, 2018 | Chow
Pradeep is a Scrum Master for the team that you have been coaching. In your 1-on-1 with him he shares with you his view of the team. After a spurt of improvements over the initial few sprints, it appears that the team is not making similar progress. They are doing...
