Chow #161 – Transitioning in as an agile coach
Pradeep is an experienced manager in the financial sector. He’s considered an expert in onboarding team members and being a buddy for several team members. His organization has set itself on a business agility transformation path. Pradeep wanted to apply for the agile coach role. He has been working as a team member in scrum […]
Seven Tenets of Agile Knowledge Transition Methodology
When I started my transition journey, it was for a part of a large knowledge transfer of work from ABN Amro to Infosys a decade back. As I have long been associated with knowledge transfers, I observe many mistakes repeated. This blog is to share the essence of my learnings’ and capture the key tenets […]
Chow #158 – Demand vs Capacity
Ajit is a scrum master with some experience in leading an agile team. He has been assigned to a new team and he finds the team in the middle of their first sprint planning meeting. The product owner (PO) is relatively new to his role and has gone through the required training. He has prepared […]
Chow # 157 – How many statuses do I need?
Chirag was a new lateral joinee to one of the teams that I had coached. After his first week, Chirag approached me with a question: How many statuses should I define in my workflow, so that I know where exactly a story is, so that I can intervene as a scrum master. In my previous […]
CHOW #150 – What is the first Red pill?
Project Manager Chuck has just formed a new Agile team to develop a new generation diagnostics software for diesel engines based on real-time big data coming from field installations across the country – a mission-critical and technologically challenging work. The team reports to Chuck and he in turn reports to Mary Anne. Mary Anne is […]
Agile: The Journey starts with me!
Authored by McGee – Agile Coach (These statements are strictly personal and are not those of any Company or Organization) Last week I found myself in a discussion on agile leadership. I believe agile transformations can only be successful if the leader is fully bought in, fully supports the transformation and develops an “Agile Mind-set” […]
The Growth Mindset
Author: McGee – Agile Coach (These statements are strictly personal and are not those of any Company or Organization) Recently, I attended an Agile Coaching course. One of the goals of this course was to make the participants aware of and to practice a number of leadership styles. One of these styles was “Mentoring”. In […]
Tying it all together – The Johari Window
Author: McGee – Agile Coach (These statements are strictly personal and are not those of any Company or Organization) I remember a number of years ago I was at home and my family were all laughing and joking about one of my brothers about his night out on the town. It was great fun and […]
Trust me I’m Irish
Author: McGee – Agile Coach (These statements are strictly personal and are not those of any Company or Organization) My wife, Helen, is very pretty. When people meet her they are often surprised and have no problem letting me know that I am “punching above my weight” and have done well for myself! Sometimes you […]
CHOW #136 – Resistance to Improvement
Ram, a Test Lead, had been working for eTravel for the last three years. eTravel has a cloud-based product for frequent business travellers. When his organization decided to adopt agile practices two years ago, he chose to take on the Scrum Master role. The feature team, that he was part of as SM, had the […]
