by Zafar Ahmad | Aug 23, 2021 | Leadership, Personal Growth
Introduction Over thirty years ago, I arrived in the US for the first time on a work assignment. The US company assigned a human resources manager to assist me with house hunt, bank account opening, and other basic needs. When it came to opening the bank...
by Zafar Ahmad | Aug 22, 2021 | Chow
Sid is a newly hired development manager for a global software product company. Sid is originally from India, but he has been living in the US for over five years.Sid is responsible for managing a multi-location team of teams, who are developing one of the flagship...
by Zafar Ahmad | Mar 15, 2021 | Agile
Introduction Agile principles and methods promote team working. Agile emphasizes the team’s success. Practicing agile methods in the right ways in organizations leads to high-performing teams. On the other hand, there is an often talked about perceived concern....
by Zafar Ahmad | Mar 15, 2021 | Chow
Susan is a Scrum Master of a software product development team. The team was formed six months ago and is new to Agile and Scrum. The team is working hard but not able to deliver as per the expectation of the business. Susan feels that the team members have adequate...
by Zafar Ahmad | Oct 6, 2020 | Chow
CyberZars is a leading software product development company in the Cyber Security domain. CyberZars practices Scrum/Xp for software development. One of their flagship product OpenConnect is developed by four scrum teams. Chris is a Product Owner (PO) for one of...
by Zafar Ahmad | Oct 6, 2020 | Personal Growth
Centuries ago, Robert the Bruce was the king of Scotland. England was at war with Scotland to make it a part of England. King Bruce led many battles, six times to be precise, against England and got defeated. Finally, his army got scattered, and the king...
by Zafar Ahmad | Apr 20, 2020 | Agile
Background A few years ago, my team was working on launching a software product for streaming digital advertisements during the Super Bowl event in the US. The team had performed extensive testing, and all the happy and negative test cases had passed. The software was...
by Zafar Ahmad | Apr 20, 2020 | Chow
Deepa is a scrum master of a newly formed Scrum team consisting of 6 member development team supported by a full-time product owner, and a scrum master. The development team consists of a tech lead, three developers, one tester, and one DevOps skilled person. The team...
by Zafar Ahmad | Jun 3, 2019 | Chow
Mark is a manager in a global software product development organization. He manages a 15-member team of software developers and testers. His team is a high-performance team and they deliver consistently meeting expectations of the management and the customer. Alex is...
by Zafar Ahmad | Jun 3, 2019 | Agile, Mindfulness
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, widely regarded as the greatest batsman who ever played the game, scored 9000 runs in 105 test matches he played between 1998-2002 hitting 31 tons at an average run-rate of 57. During the Australian tour of 2003, his scores read 8, 7, 55, 1,...
