by J Veeraraaghavan | Apr 17, 2022 | Agile, Leadership
Ever since Agile approaches became popular about 15 to 20 years ago, Agile culture and mindset have been touted as the foundation elements around which successful organizational transformation happens. Peter Drucker’s famous quote “Culture eats strategy...
by Guruprasad | Mar 28, 2022 | Agile, Chow, Leadership
Piyush works as a Manager for a team of 20 people. He has been successfully running an IT team for the last 3 years. However, he has been constantly plagued by his people going on unplanned leaves. This has been happening for the last 8-9 months or so. It also came...
by S Vasudev | Dec 20, 2021 | Agile, Coaching, Leadership
The Scrum Master (SM) has to ensure that the Team meets the delivery commitments on a sustained basis. For that the SM has to enable the team members to focus and perform. SM has to do this as a facilitative leader and not as a traditional directive leader. This is a...
by S Vasudev | Dec 20, 2021 | Agile, Chow, Coaching, Leadership, Personal Growth
You are the Agile coach in an organization that has embarked in its journey to adopt Agile. You have completed the initial assessment, done tailored training sessions for the teams and started coaching the leaders and teams. The Scrum teams are formed by drawing...
by Paramu Kurumathur | Dec 10, 2021 | Leadership
Yet another holiday season is upon us. The second in the vicious grip of the runaway COVID virus. We have run halfway through the Greek alphabet trying to name these ever-evolving bugs. Anyway, the word ‘vicious’ got be thinking about a vicious circle that...
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...
