by Savitha K | Nov 27, 2018 | Agile, Coaching
I started my agile journey as an agile team member couple of years back, where I was assigned to a pilot team which was part of large agile transformation initiative. Once the initiative was kicked off, all the pilot project team members were trained on agile (what is...
by S Vasudev | Aug 28, 2018 | Agile, Coaching
The title may have intrigued you, here is how it evolved. A few teams that I coach wanted to know about Scaling Agile and particularly Scaled Agile Framework and I was thinking on how best to introduce that in a contextual manner. The patterns I had seen emerge...
by S Vasudev | May 21, 2018 | Agile, Coaching
Coaching Agile teams provides one with a few extraordinary moments that make you go wow! I am sharing one such event in this blog when I saw self-organization manifest at a different level. As part of a coaching assignment at an organization, I was asked to help a...
by S Vasudev | May 10, 2017 | Agile, Coaching
Agile Scrum teams that I have interacted with have their team norms or working agreements in place. This is in place either at the start, or within a few sprints. Typically, it starts with an attempt to address some aspect of collaboration within...
by S Vasudev | Oct 20, 2015 | Agile, Coaching
One of the Scrum Masters I was coaching had brought up the issue of the team members not clued into/or caring much for the team’s velocity. The team was very capable, the team members would participate passionately in the Sprint Planning, try to ensure that they...
by S Srinivasan | Aug 28, 2015 | Coaching, Leadership, Personal Growth, Project Management
Most of us, in our lives we work under the guidance and direction of our manager. There’s of course a lot of talk of servant leadership and how managers become servants to the team. Sometimes it sounds like a good fairy tale story. At other times it’s...
