by S Vasudev | Jan 2, 2021 | Chow
You are coaching a team based in another location. You have made good progress with Kathy (Scrum Master), Mark (Product Owner) and the team MasterMinds. When you interact with the team after the Thanksgiving break, you notice that the team has started doing their...
by S Vasudev | Jan 1, 2021 | Agile
As a coach, I often reflect on how the approaches and the practices have evolved from the traditional to the Agile. I can recollect many instances and moments, when we did things differently, improvised a bit, in the traditional world. These were steps, tips, tricks...
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...
