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...
by Gopal Gopalan | Nov 19, 2021 | Leadership, Personal Growth
Managing a business or leading a team requires effective delegation of responsibilities. However, we often see this not happening effectively and as a result, progress gets hampered in many fronts. Delegation is something we are exposed to a lot in our...
by Guruprasad | Nov 15, 2021 | Agile, Chow, Leadership
Padma works as a Project Manager in the IT division of one of the reputed retail organizations. She has always been quite ambitious and loved to take risks. She was one of the go-to Managers when it comes to taking up new and complex projects. Because of her risk...