by Zafar Ahmad | Nov 29, 2021 | Chow
Sudha is a project manager with a Global IT services organization. She joined this company 8 years ago as a fresh software engineer, grew to a tech lead and now she is an architect. She has been a consistent performer over the years. Sudha’s company has been...
by Zafar Ahmad | Nov 28, 2021 | Leadership
Context Several years ago, I conducted a skip-level exit interview with a software engineer on my team. I did not work directly with this person in the past year, but I had heard good things about him. I was surprised to learn from him that the main...
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...
