CHOW # 311 – Addressing Skill Gaps
Problem – Shiva is the scrum master of a newly formed scrum team. Team members are new to each other but they are enthusiastic and motivated. To sort out any teething problems quickly , the team has adopted a buddy system where two members are paired and they help each other in sorting out any […]
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Scenario: You are a new Agile Coach hired by a service company that has been struggling to transition from Waterfall to Agile methodologies. The Delivery Manager, “Waterfall Wix,” has been leading the team using traditional Waterfall practices for over 15 years. Despite training sessions and workshops on Agile, the team is still facing issues with […]
“Waterfall Wix: The Agile Implementation Roadblock”
Introduction: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern): “An anti-pattern in software engineering, project management, and business processes is a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive.” Personas are fictional characters representing commonalities of a representative sample of a system. They draw a comprehensive picture of the […]
What does “Being Agile” mean?
Many years back, when I was in the second year of M. Tech (Computer Sc.) program, my hostel mates who took Fortran Programming course, used to consult me when they had any difficulties in programming. On one such occasion, one hostelmate came to me. His teacher had told him that the program that he had […]
Rebooting Agile – Key patterns to succeed
When Agile movement started roughly 15-16 years back, there were multiple reasons why Organizations latched on to it. One is the novelty factor. Agile was a new buzz word then and there was a sense of “Cool”ness associated in marketing yourself as an Agile Organization. There was a sense of “pride”. They took pride in […]
CHOW #279 – When Customer doesn’t accept releases on Cadence ?
Last week, Eashwar called me and said he wanted to meet me urgently on a critical issue. He said on phone. “Everything we had planned as part of an Agile Transformation is crumbling fast and our customer is not accepting frequent releases. What should I do now?” I asked him to calm down. We set […]
Images that Inspired a Successful Change
Images have the power to inspire. And as human beings, we connect to images and stories around those much faster than we connect to words. When I began Agile transformation with one of the business units for my client organization, I thought of using these images. These were quite inspirational for me and I believed […]
Doing Agile Right – Balance!
From the book cover: Agile has the power to transform work – but only if it is implemented the right way. The book dispels the myths and misconceptions that have accompanied agile’s rise to prominence – that it can reshape an organization all at once; or that it should be used in every function and […]
Agile Leadership Tips for Product Owners
While the Agility is visible in the behavior of the team members, it needs to be fostered by the environment in which the teams operate. Unless the team is provided with the right eco-system, agility cannot thrive. While the senior leadership of the organization is responsible for promoting agility, it is the first line of […]
Seven Tips for Managers in Agile Transformation
A critical aspect of Agile Transformation is that here we are not just adopting new practices or processes but we are approaching the software development in a totally new way which requires us to think and act differently. This change required in our behavior – the way we interact with each other, the things that […]
