CHOW #89- Letting go…
Vishal was very excited to get to work that morning. He was feeling very relaxed after the Dussera break when he had taken a whole week off. But the main reason for his excitement was the new role he was going to take up when he is back in the office. He had the requisite […]
Future of Agile coaching – Composites!
I was reading about composite materials or composites a few days back. Composites have made many improvements and breakthroughs possible – from baseball bats, to prosthetic limbs and heat shields for spacecraft. It led me to think about extending the concept of composites to coaching for Agile transformations. Composites essentially blend materials with different physical and […]
The Story Teller
A backlog must resemble a good folktale- that people will talk about after they have listened to it, allowing freedom to interpret and be able to be told in multiple variations without changing the outcome. Product Owners play a direct role in creating backlogs that teams can own and understand the problem that they are […]
CHOW #63- Case of a long regression testing
Daniel is the scrum master for a financial product and his team is responsible for the front office processing. Thamizhan is the QA lead for this financial product. They often work together to keep the quality and product wellness in perfect shape. Regression testing of the product takes almost 4 weeks to complete and in case […]
CHOW #62- “Bite what you can chew” Responsibilities a Scrum Master can take
Barbara Jones had been a Scrum Master for a year with a team and had done a good job getting the team to a good level maturity in Agile adoption. The need for her support had reduced over time. It occupied Barbara just for a few hours per week on an average. Barbara approached her […]
Role of Metrics in Organizational Excellence
Teams and organizations like things to be deterministic. Start with a plan – a projection – and make sure you achieve the goals. Based on oft quoted phrase ‘you cannot manage what you cannot measure’, the next step is to make everything measurable. The goals in terms of quantity, timeline — and of course quality. […]
Planning your DevOps Program
Agile transformation journeys typically get started with goals that may strive to reduce cycle time, bring predictability to software development, reduce defects and risks to business. The most challenging, and impacting part of this journey is to introduce lasting changes to engineering practices, and collaboration across teams involved in software craftsmanship. Essentially, embracing DevOps. DevOps […]
