Implementing Agile in Non-software World
It is not often that one gets to work on an engagement where there is an opportunity to build a system from the ground-up. Thought I would briefly share the experience. This fast-growing consulting firm in social sector came to us with a need for greater agility in managing their customer engagements that included transformation […]
4 Focus areas for Delivery Leaders in Achieving Business Agility
After a few years of practicing agile, one the most talked about Next Gen Agile Transformation is Business Agility. In this blog, I want to talk about the changes in expectations from delivery managers to move towards capability leaders. Benefits of moving to a Business Agility driven Org Model Why go through this change? One […]
Three disciplines for sustainable Excellence
Recently, I was in a conversation with my colleague, Ms Chitra Gurjar, as an episode guest on the Software Lifecycle Stories podcast. The question I was asked was my take on Business Excellence and Knowledge Management. As that was an unscripted conversation, I had shared the principles that I usually base my coaching on. When […]
CHOW #129 – How do you integrate the UxD team and their work effectively into a Scrum team?
Finsys Inc. is a software products and services provider in the insurance and financial services space based out of Boston, MA. Product teams in India for Finsys have been working for the international market using Agile/Scrum during the last two years. The product teams have faced some major delivery challenges, struggling to meet release commitments […]
Role of Organization Structure in Succeeding with Agile
Most of my recent engagements with large corporates moving over to Agile or scaling with Agile have had major challenges in implementation. This has been in no small measure due to them continuing with traditional organization structure thinking even while moving to Agile for delivery. You could change processes, you could re-skill developers, even change […]
Sprint Planning in distributed teams… Patterns… SAFe
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 during my coaching interactions with the teams […]
Re-boot your Sprint Planning
This blog is more to share an observation and get inputs from as many folks as possible on sprint planning: Often, teams do their sprint planning in the following way: 1. There are a set of stories (mostly) ready for an upcoming sprint.2. Hence, the teams estimate their stories to pick a few stories from […]
The Role of Functional Managers in an Agile/Scrum environment
Agile transformation success stories are not as common as you would expect considering the promise Agile approaches hold. Yet, in my experience in working with many organizations, I have been amazed by how much more they could have achieved if only the various roles involved in the transformation were understood and implemented the way they […]
CHOW #94- The Next Level of Agility
Venkat is the Scrum Master of ScrumGods, a team which has consistently been praised by all as a very Agile team. They did all their ceremonies without fail and team members collaborate well and their artefacts are all highly visible and so on. After a few months, some of the team members were getting a […]
Improving Agility – Raising the bar
In every organization where I have coached several teams for periods of six months or more, I have found a few teams which stand out. It could be due to a dynamic Scrum Master or a sensible and knowledgeable Product Owner or a few motivated smart team members. These are the teams which keep approaching […]
