Organization culture and Agile – how to make it work?
Organization agility is all about culture, and then making a shift requires cultural change. Organizational Culture has often been identified as one of the main challenges in the adoption of agile values and principles. Consequently, organizations may benefit from analyzing the existing organizational Culture even before they decide to start their transformation journey towards agile. But in most cases, Culture was not considered […]
Is vertical slice of cake really better than horizontal mix of ramen in Agile Data?
I have coached many agile teams and my goal has been to help them towards high performing teams. I see the following main markers for high performance around teamwork, continuous value delivery of product(s) and relentless focus on improvement. In the presence of multiple metrics, organizational structure and KPIs/OKRs, if the foundation element of the […]
Chow #180 – Does Scrum work well with DevOps
How can DevOps team work in Scrum
CHOW #177 – Predictability for a multi-dimensional team
My Finco is a large successful company that has been using technology to run its business for over 4 decades now. Yeddy is a Scrum Master with a team which has some people who have specialized in the systems that are running for years on the mainframe, a set of team members who over the […]
Business Agility – Beyond Capitalism
Today, we have seen agile taking deep roots in the organization. While it began its humble journey when a group of techies were dis-satisfied with the process, it has now moved beyond that into every nook and corner of many an organization. So, business agility is the new mantra. Author and thought leader Steve Denning […]
CHOW #175 – How do you manage high power teams?
There is a story, most probably apocryphal, about a famous research institution in Yorktown Heights, New York, USA. One of the labs in the institution was headed by a manager who was not a scientist himself. All the scientists in the lab working under his direction, more than a hundred of them, were Nobel laureates […]
Minimum Viable DevOps
There seems to be a growing misinterpretation of DevOps. When we hear the word DevOps, the first thing that comes to our mind is automation; continuous deployment, continuous build, and associated toolsets or we think of development and operations teams sitting together. Even when we search DevOps in google, you can get results such as […]
Agile Leadership Canvas – Cultivating Agile Mindset and Culture
We don’t have to pull the plants to make them grow. We have to just nurture them with water & soil and allow enough sunlight to fall on them (remove impediments), they will grow and bear fruits, quite efficiently. Leaders’ role is like that of farmers. They need to create an environment where people thrive […]
CHOW #168 – Stress in Agile?!
Anand is a software engineer who had started his career a couple of years ago in a large multinational software organization. Most of his work there had been in teams which had adopted a somewhat waterfallish approach for development. As the teams approached release deadlines, the pressure and stress were almost unbearable – 80+ hours […]
Governance in Agile and the role of Management – some perspectives
Over the last several years of my Agile coaching experience, I have been asked many times about how governance works with Agile and what metrics should management use to ensure the “appropriate” level of governance. While I must admit that I often used to wonder why these should be such difficult questions, I also realized […]
